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Ajax ALFRED HENRY LEWIS Anaconda Airline asked Richard Bayard began beneath Benzine Bess Count Storri Credit Magellan cried Storri Croesus Jr Czar Daily Tory dinner door Dorothy Dorothy's drain eyes face favor fear Fopling French shares gave gentleman Georgian Bay-Ontario Canal give gold Governor Obstinate Gwynn hand Hanway-Harley Hanway's Harley house Harley's Hawke heart honor hour hundred Inspector Val John Harley kissed London Bill look Marklin Matzai millions Miss Harley morning mother mouth never night nobleman Northern Consolidated observed Richard old gray buccaneer once osprey pool Patrick Henry Hanway politics President replied returned Reve's Rich Russian San Reve Sands Senator Gruff Senator Hanway Speaker Frost Steamboat stood Storms street sure talk tell there's thing thought tion told took Treasury Building tunnel Uncle Pat Warmdollar wedding White House woman word yacht Zulu Queen
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Page 454 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Page 493 - Crisp and strong, full of breeziness and virile humanity." — Brooklyn Eagle. " A capital story told with a spirit and go that are irresistible. A strong and dramatic novel. Shows literary genius.
Page 492 - Cap'n Eri is queer, quaint and delightful. Its title figure is too much a character by himself to be referred to for comparison even as a nautical David Harum.
Page 492 - What a whiff of manhood and strength blows about one as one reads. The reader is at the author's mercy, laughs with him and feels with him. The reading of these things is good for the soul. American authors who write such novels as Cap'n Eri need fear no rebuff* in England.1' — London Academy. Illustrated In color by Charlotte Weber I2mo, doth. $1.50 "cA DELIGHTFUL NOVEL." —VhUtdelpUa Ledger. To Windward By* Henry C. Rowland (SECOND EDITION) "Written with charm.
Page 395 - there's a bend at that point." " What's next? " asked Mr. Duff ; " do we follow him in and collar him? or do we just wait here? " " Collar him ! " repeated Inspector Val disgustedly. " I'd like to catch you collaring him ! Is this a time to talk of collaring, and we no further than the threshold of the job? Let him alone; he's only laying out the work to-night.
Page 393 - Storri, beheld such a door or such a lock, and he had peeped into the strong rooms of a dozen kings. The gold, too, one hundred and ninety-three millions in all, packed five thousand dollars to a sack in little canvas sacks like bags of birdshot, and each sack weighing twenty pounds — Storri saw it all!
Page 223 - We certify . . . that Santum was out on the platform when another Indian of almost as great a stature came out, and the two passed and re-passed each other as they walked up and down. At the same time a conversation was being carried on between George Dix, Mayflower, old Mr. Morse, and Mrs. Eaton inside the cabinet. We recognized the familiar voice of each.
Page 393 - ... into the strong rooms of a dozen kings. The gold, too, one hundred and ninety-three millions in all, packed five thousand dollars to a sack in little canvas sacks like bags of birdshot, and each sack weighing twenty pounds — Storri saw it all!