Category: Historical Novels
|ON a night in October, 1911, the river steamer _Yen Hsin_ lay alongside the godown, or warehouse, of the Chinese Navigation Company at Shanghai. Her black hull bulked large in the darkness that was spotted with inadequate electric lights. Her white cabins, above, lighted here...
|ROCKY KANE, the few hours that followed were to exist in memory as a confused sequence of swift-pressing scenes, all highly colored, vivid; certain of them touched with horror,...
4. CHAPTER IV--INTRIGUEHalf an hour earlier. Doane, on the lower deck, came upon a group of his excellency's soldiers--brown deep-chested men, picturesque in their loose blue trousers bound in above t...
10. CHAPTER X--YOUTH|THERE came for his excellency, as the sun mounted the sky, a large junk of his own river fleet--great brown sails flapping against the five masts of all heights that pointed up...
14. CHAPTER XIV--THE WORLD OF FACT|THE yellow junk was now abreast the landing hulks of the great international shipping companies just below the city. Rocky left the bow and made his way to the after cabins wit...
12. CHAPTER XII--AT THE HOUR OF THE TIGER|THEY passed, that evening, the region of Peng-tze where Tao Yuan-ming, after a scant three months as district magistrate, surrendered his honors and retired to his humble farm...
6. CHAPTER VI--CONFLAGRATION|A BEWILDERED, crushed Rocky Kane stood tightly holding the rail; staring down at the softly black water that ran so smoothly along the hull beneath; muttering in whispers that...
7. CHAPTER VII--THE INSCRUTABLE WEST|DOANE knew nothing of the dignified figure he presented as he took the viceroy's hand, a profoundly sobered giant, his huge frame outlined beneath his wet garments like a Greek...
8. CHAPTER VIII--ABOARD THE YELLOW JUNK|IN making their escape from the steamer, Tex Connor and the Manila Kid seized one of the small boats, manning, one at either end, the tackle-falls. Connor was quick, rough, pro...
1. CHAPTER I--FELLOW VOYAGERS|ON a night in October, 1911, the river steamer _Yen Hsin_ lay alongside the godown, or warehouse, of the Chinese Navigation Company at Shanghai. Her black hull bulked large in...
2. CHAPTER II--BETWEEN THE WORLDS|TOWARD noon Miss Means and Miss Andrews were in their chairs on deck, when a gay little outburst of laughter caught their attention, and around the canvas screen came running t...
3. CHAPTER III--MISS HUI FEI|THE luncheon table of his excellency was simply set, with two chairs of carven blackwood, behind a high painted screen of six panels. It was at this screen that the first mate...
5. CHAPTER V--RESURGENCE|THE upper-deck passengers awoke in the morning to find the engines still at rest, and the now familiar View of Kiu Kiang still to be seen from port-side windows; the _Yen Hsin_...
13. CHAPTER XIII--HIS EXCELLENCY SPEAKS|IT was daybreak. Doane, standing in his cabin by the opened window, looked out with melancholy in his deep-set eyes over the muddy low reaches that border the Wusung. It was a...
9. CHAPTER IX--IN A GARDEN|THE road--narrow, worn to a deep-rutted little canyon--circled a brown hill, rose into a mud-gray village, where a few listless children played among the dogs, and a few apathe...
15. CHAPTER XV--IN A COURTYARD|HE sent in his name, and waited for an hour in an outer office. For even at this late hour in the evening headquarters was a busy place. Chinese gentlemen crowded in and out, d...