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Excerpt from The House of WhispersThe girl, quickly snatching away her hand, answered with a forced laugh, How absurd you really are, dear old dad! You're always fancying something or other.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recon...

Excerpt from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of EnglandO sane person can deny that England is in grave danger of invasion by Germany at a date not far distant.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pre...

Excerpt from Crimes Club: A Record of Secret Investigations Into Some Amazing Crimes, Mostly Withheld From the PublicThe Crimes Club was a secret organization to which no outsider was ever admitted under any pretext, while its proceedings were never mentioned in the newspapers.Besides studying crime, its unique purpose was to assist the police Of France, or of any other country, to unravel the mysteries that baf¿ed them. In certain bewildering...

Excerpt from German Spies in England: An ExposureFrom the outbreak of war until to-day I have hesitated to write this book. But I now feel impelled to do so by a sense of duty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

And he died mysteriously?" "The doctors certified that he died from natural causes--heart failure." "That is what the world believes, of course. His death was a nation's loss, and the truth was hushed up. But you, Phil Poland, know it. Upon the floor was found something--a cigar- eh?" "Nothing very extraordinary in that, surely? He died while smoking." "Yes, " said the bald-headed man, bending towards the other and lowering his voice into a ha...

Excerpt from The Great War in England in 1897Thirdly, You take but little account of the Militia, which the Duke of Wellington considered to be our mainstay in the event of a threatened invasion. The Militia would seem to be rather out of fashion at present, but still it is a very useful force, which only needs encouragement and development to con vert it into a reliable fighting body, capable of reinforcing and co-operating with our small reg...

Excerpt from The TemptressThe nuptial blessing was droned monotonously in French by a stout rubicund priest, who wore soiled and crumpled vestments.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original f...

Excerpt from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great SaharaAway across the barren desert to the distant horizon nothing met the aching eye but a dreary waste of burning red-brown sand, under a cloudless sky Shining like burnished copper. Not an object relieved the wearying monotony of the waterless region forsaken by nature, not a palm, not a rock, not a knoll, not a vestige of herbage, nothing but the boundless, silent expanse of that w...

Excerpt from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great SaharaAway across the barren desert to the distant horizon nothing met the aching eye but a dreary waste of burning red-brown sand, under a cloudless sky Shining like burnished copper. Not an object relieved the wearying monotony of the waterless region forsaken by nature, not a palm, not a rock, not a knoll, not a vestige of herbage, nothing but the boundless, silent expanse of that w...

Excerpt from The TemptressThe nuptial blessing was droned monotonously in French by a stout rubicund priest, who wore soiled and crumpled vestments.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original f...

Excerpt from Devil's DiceI trust not, I said gallantly. Ah acquaintanceship commenced under these strange conditions is rather to mantic, to say the least.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ori...

Excerpt from Devil's DiceI trust not, I said gallantly. Ah acquaintanceship commenced under these strange conditions is rather to mantic, to say the least.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ori...

Excerpt from Treasure of IsraelThe discovery, much in the form that I have here presented it, has actually been made, and its dis coverer, a well-known professor at one of the Univer sities in the North of Europe, recently placed the extraordinary statement in my hands.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

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