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Chapter 1. Belgian and Arab Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name hehad dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered.At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent himto this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, ashe had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, ... more>>
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Chapter 1 The long boat of the Marjorie W. was floating down the broadUgambi with ebb tide and current. Her crew were lazily enjoyingthis respite from the arduous labor of rowing up stream. Threemiles below them lay the Marjorie W. herself, quite ready to sailso soon as they should have clambered aboard and swung the longboat to its davits. Present ... more>>
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Chapter 1: The Affair on the Liner "Magnifique!" ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath herbreath. "Eh?" questioned the count, turning toward his young wife. "Whatis it that is magnificent?" and the count bent his eyes in variousdirections in quest of the object of her admiration. "Oh, nothing at all, my dear," replied the countess, a slightflus ... more>>
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Chapter I. On the Arizona Hills I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am ahundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never agedas other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I canrecollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appeartoday as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that Ic ... more>>
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Chapter I I am forced to admit that even though I had traveled a longdistance to place Bowen Tyler's manuscript in the hands of hisfather, I was still a trifle skeptical as to its sincerity, since Icould not but recall that it had not been many years since Bowenhad been one of the most notorious practical jokers of his almamater. The truth was that ... more>>
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Prologue Several years had elapsed since I had found the op-portunity todo any big-game hunting; for at last I had my plans almostperfected for a return to my old stamping-grounds in northernAfrica, where in other days I had had excellent sport in pursuit ofthe king of beasts. The date of my departure had been set; I was to leave in twoweeks. No sc ... more>>
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Chapter I Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years.At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings ofEngland. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up byaccident. The accident being the relationship of my wife's cousinto a certain Father Superior in a very ancient monastery inEurope. He let me pry about among ... more>>
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Chapter 1 This is the tale of Bradley after he left Fort Dinosaur upon thewest coast of the great lake that is in the center of theisland. Upon the fourth day of September, 1916, he set out with fourcompanions, Sinclair, Brady, James, and Tippet, to search along thebase of the barrier cliffs for a point at which they might bescaled. Through the hea ... more>>
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Part IChapter I. Billy Byrne Billy Byrne was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago'sgreat West Side. From Halsted to Robey, and from Grand Avenue toLake Street there was scarce a bartender whom Billy knew not by hisfirst name. And, in proportion to their number which wasconsiderably less, he knew the patrolmen and plain clothes menequally ... more>>
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1. The Rift As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered andmutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devourevery trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him tothe gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his bodyforward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms,breaking into dr ... more>>
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Chapter 1 Since earliest childhood I have been strangely fascinated by themystery surrounding the history of the last days of twentiethcentury Europe. My interest is keenest, perhaps, not so much inrelation to known facts as to speculation upon the unknowable ofthe two centuries that have rolled by since human intercoursebetween the Western and Eas ... more>>
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Chapter 1 It must have been a little after three o'clock in the afternoonthat it happened--the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. It seemsincredible that all that I have passed through--all those weird andterrifying experiences--should have been encompassed within soshort a span as three brief months. Rather might I have experienceda cosmic cycle, with a ... more>>
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1. Tarzan's First Love Teeka, stretched at luxurious ease in the shade of the tropicalforest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture ofyoung, feminine loveliness. Or at least so thought Tarzan of theApes, who squatted upon a low-swinging branch in a near-by tree andlooked down upon her. Just to have seen him there, lolling upon the sway ... more>>
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Chapter I. The Plant Men As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear coldnight in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowinglike the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I feltagain the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war,my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I hadimplored ... more>>
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Chapter I. Jimmy Torrance, Jr. The gymnasium was packed as Jimmy Torrance stepped into the ringfor the final event of the evening that was to decide the boxingchampionship of the university. Drawing to a close were the nearlyfour years of his college career--profitable years, Jimmyconsidered them, and certainly successful up to this point. In thebe ... more>>
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