Category: Adventure
The steamship _Elbe_ had crossed the equator on her long passage from Southampton to Buenos Ayres in September, 1893. All but the final phases of a well-regulated, fair-weather voyage on a big passenger ship had duly presented themselves. The first irksomeness of the long mono...
The history of the financial world for the next two months was peculiar. The markets of London and of all Europe were affected by the strange conditions which developed in Ameri...
9. CHAPTER IX.London has been treated to so many surprises in United States finance, that the events of the first six months of 1895 were at first received as merely fresh proof of the rule t...
1. CHAPTER I.The steamship _Elbe_ had crossed the equator on her long passage from Southampton to Buenos Ayres in September, 1893. All but the final phases of a well-regulated, fair-weather...
3. CHAPTER III.It was dusk when the six horsemen, descending the still tortuous path, reached the bottom of the mountain-guarded valley. They had been challenged by a small band of Indians whe...
10. CHAPTER X.Robert Brent was in London for the first time since he started upon his almost hopeless quest of fortune’s favor in the summer of 1893. He had been the only passenger on the _My...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Without waiting to learn how the rulers of Europe received the confidential reports made to their governments by the delegates, Brent took passage for New York on the first stea...
2. CHAPTER II.Brent never had worked so hard in his life as during the days that followed his strange engagement for the pursuit of fabulous treasure. The disabled Fraser, none too patient in...
11. CHAPTER XI.There was a good deal of disappointment among the passengers of the steamship _Paris_ as she steamed up from Sandy Hook toward quarantine, in the dusk of Friday evening of the w...
12. CHAPTER XII.When the secretary of the treasury reached his desk on the morning of Saturday, the 2d of November, 1895, he notified the doorkeeper that he should be extremely busy for some ho...
4. CHAPTER IV.New York seemed strange to Brent for several days after his arrival. Life itself impressed him as unnatural and unreal. More than once he became suspicious that memory was playi...
6. CHAPTER VI.When the gong rang in the New York Stock Exchange at ten o’clock one morning just before the 1894 Christmas holidays, the attendance of brokers upon the floor was smaller than u...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The _grand salon_ of the French Foreign Office was once more the meeting-place of a great international tribunal. Four years before, an imposing bench of famous jurists had sat...
5. CHAPTER V.It was five o’clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, the 20th of November, when the last box of the _Richmond’s_ mysterious cargo was raised to its place on top of one of the tiers...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The private mail of the president of Harvard College contained one morning, the latter part of April, 1895, a letter which was ever afterwards preserved as the most important do...