Adventure stories
Asoka's alibi
To comfort himself he looked up at Asoka, the tallest elephant in captivity, whom only he could manage at the best of times. At other times Quorn had to ride him as a fury rides a typhoon.
Chapters
1. CHAPTER I.
To comfort himself he looked up at Asoka, the tallest elephant in captivity, whom only he could manage at the best of times. At other times Quorn had to ride him as a fury rides...
2. CHAPTER II.Nights are noisier than days when Narada is keeping carnival; and they are lovelier, because the colored lanterns sway amid a mystery of trees and the roofs of nearly all the an...
3. CHAPTER III.Say this for England: a Residency is a place where any one is safe, no matter who he is nor why he has taken refuge. Since '57, when they held the Lucknow Residency against as l...
4. CHAPTER IV.Rats are credited with instinct that enables them to leave a ship some time before it sinks. Bamjee had perhaps evolved beyond that animal characteristic without losing the desi...
5. CHAPTER V.One reason why Brazenose Blake had been picked for the post of British Resident in Nerada was his genius for official inertia and strictly unofficial action. He could be incredi...
6. CHAPTER VI.An ancient bridge unites the two, and underneath the bridge the Pul-ke-Nichi runs--a narrow street between the hills, a few feet higher than the level of the temple basements, w...
7. CHAPTER VII.The outcast's lot is not a happy one, but there are compensations. The Chandala are regarded as so untouchable that even sweepers will have nothing to do with them. They are not...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Narada knew that there were tantrums in the wind. It was the time of year when corn-fed elephants go _musth_ and men are inflamed by all the tom-tom of the marriage drums until...
9. CHAPTER IX.There was a well-defined track down the rocks to the foot of the fall, and below that there was a footpath all along the river to the ford. Quorn rode along that, watching the t...