# Dragon's blood

Author: Rideout, Henry Milner, 1877-1927; Brett, Harold, 1880-1955 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10321

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dragon%27s+blood+Rideout&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was "about first-drink time," as the captain of the Tsuen-Chau, bound for Shanghai and Japan ports, observed to his friend Cesare Domenico, a good British subject born at Malta. They sat on the coolest corner in Port Said, their table commanding both the cross-way of Chareh Sultan el Osman, and the short, glaring vista of desert dust and starved young acacias which led to the black hulks of shipping in the Canal. From the Bar la Poste came orchestral strains--"Ai nostri monti"--performed by a piano indoors and two violins on the pavement. The sounds contended with a thin, scattered strumming of cafe mandolins, the tinkle of glasses, the steady click of dominoes and backgammon; then wer...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dragon-s-blood-10321/chapters/10/index.md)