At the Palace Livenza's Revenge Livenza's Revenge The Hut on the Hillside The Hut on the Hillside A King's Riddle A King's Riddle SARITA, THE CARLIST SARITA, THE CARLIST CHAPTER I CHAPTER I THE VICTIM OF A WOMAN'S PREFERENCE THE VICTIM OF A WOMAN'S PREFERENCE If A won't marry B, ought C to be exiled? If A won't marry B, ought C to be exiled? Stated in that bald fashion the problem looks not unlike an equation that has lost caste and been relegated to a nonsense book, or lower still, to some third-rate conundrum column. And yet it was the real crux of a real situation, and meant everything to me, Ferdinand Carbonnell, the victim of a woman's preference. Stated in that bald fashion the problem looks not unlike an equation that has lost caste and been relegated to a nonsense book, or lower still, to some third-rate conundrum column. And yet it was the real crux of a real situation, and meant everything to me, Ferdinand Carbonnell, the victim of a woman's preference.