Contents

Front Cover Image

Welcome

Dedication

Part One: The Sticks

Chapter 1: A Departure

Chapter 2: The Men in Gray

Chapter 3: “A man of mechanism and wit, of ingenuity never before seen…”

Chapter 4: The Chorale

Chapter 5: Heironomo Silenus

Chapter 6: “He sees what he wants to see.”

Chapter 7: Colette de Verdicere of the Zahand Dynasty, Princess of the Kush Steppes

Chapter 8: The First Rehearsal

Chapter 9: A Meeting of Shepherds

Chapter 10: “In the beginning…”

Chapter 11: “Her name was Alice Carole.”

Chapter 12: “Are you coming or not?”

Part Two: The Big Time

Chapter 13: The Long Tour

Chapter 14: Stage Time

Chapter 15: Franny’s Secret

Chapter 16: The Professor’s Miracle

Chapter 17: “We are all hanged men.”

Chapter 18: Blessings

Chapter 19: An Unexpected Return

Chapter 20: George Meets a Fan

Chapter 21: In Which a Song Is Changed

Part Three: The Chasers

Chapter 22: A Very Funny People

Chapter 23: The Water of Life

Chapter 24: The Midnight Visitor

Chapter 25: The House on the Hill

Chapter 26: Suggestion and Assumption

Chapter 27: “He has harmed me grievously.”

Chapter 28: The Little Black Island

Chapter 29: Anne Marie Sillenes

Chapter 30: The Light

Chapter 31: “You are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.”

Chapter 32: “What will happen will happen.”

Chapter 33: A Man Very Bad at Dying

Chapter 34: In Which Burdens Are Laid Down

Chapter 35: The Hanged Man

Chapter 36: The Second Song

Chapter 37: Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus

Chapter 38: The Singers

Extras

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