CONTENTS Author's Note 7 Prologue — Alexandria, the Golden City — and the Woman or the Shadows 15 BOOK FIRST The First Stone. I. First Night or Love 35 II. "Stone Her!" 46 III. "She Became Famed as a Player and Dancer" 60 IV. The Massacre 75 V. "Grant Us in Death to See Thy Face, and Endless Joy Inherit" 95 VI. Daughter and Father Face to Face 106 VII. The Triumph or the Cross 122 BOOK SECOND Mary, the Great Courtesan. VIII. The Palace or Pleasure — and the Empty Heart 129 IX. "And the Woman was Arrayed in Purple and Scarlet Color, and Decked with Gold and Precious Stones and Pearls, Haying a Golden Cup in Her Hand" 155 X. The Toilet 163 XI. The Prophect 187 XII. A Lots Song on the Nile 203 XIII. A Slave Goes to the Crocodiles 217 XIV. The Banquet 224 XV. The Raid 235 XVI. "How Much She Hath Glorified Herself and Lived A Deliciously, So Much Torment and Sorrow Give Her" 257 XVII. The Pilgrim Galley 278 BOOK THIRD The Redemption XVIII. "Never Heard I Thus or Christ in Alexandria" 313 XIX. "Woman, Arise, Thy Sins are Forgiven" 345 XX. "And They, When They Had Heard That He Was Alive, and Had Been Seen of Her, Believed Not" 356 XXI. Penitent and Priest 360 XXII. Portals of the Sky — the Eternal Bride 373 Epilogue 391 Digitized by Google., Verso of t.p.: Published March, 1916, "Published March, 1916; reprinted April 1, 1916.", Verso of t.p.: Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, at the Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U.S.A