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Voices in the Night
BY THE SAME AUTHOR Uniform with this Volume, price 6s. ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS. LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN21 BEDFORD STREET. W.C. |
Voices in the Night
By
Flora Annie Steel
Author of
'On the Face of the Waters,' etc.
London
William Heinemann
1900
All rights, including translation, reserved
This Edition enjoys Copyright in all Countries signatory to the Berne Treaty, and is not to be imported into the United States of America.
CONTENTS
| Prologue. | |
| Chapter | |
| i. | The Totalisator. |
| ii. | The Kite-Flyers. |
| iii. | Cobwebs. |
| iv. | An Unforgotten Past. |
| v. | Shark Lane. |
| vi. | The Money of Fools. |
| vii. | Crackers and Squibs. |
| viii. | The Temple of Viseshawar. |
| ix. | Uncertainties. |
| x. | The Sinews of War. |
| xi. | The Spirit of Kings and Slaves. |
| xii. | A Mother's Dirge. |
| xiii. | A Valse à deux temps. |
| xiv. | In the Toils. |
| xv. | The Râm Rucki. |
| xvi. | The Prison of Life. |
| xvii. | The Pen and the Sword. |
| xviii. | The Freedom of Death. |
| xix. | On the Bed Rock. |
| xx. | The Old Wine. |
| xxi. | Red Paint. |
| xxii. | The Better Part. |
| xxiii. | A Memorable Occasion. |
| xxiv. | The Sovereignty of Air. |
| xxv. | Secret Despatches. |
| xxvi. | Fair Odds. |
PROLOGUE
The new year was already some hours old, but the world to which it had come was still dark. Dark with a curious obscurity, that was absolutely opaque yet faintly luminous, because of the white fog which lay on all things and hid them from the stars; for the sky above was clear, cold, almost frosty.
That