CHAPTER X

ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece P78 Titlepage So You Will Carve Your Names Also P26 The Soudanese Escort Filed Along P54 He Pointed up With his Donkey-whip P66 A Silence Fell Upon the Little Company P72 Long String of Red-turbaned Riders, Frontispiece P78 You Do No Good by Exposing Yourself P86 He Struck at the Snarling Savages P 94 Fell Suddenly Upon his Face P97 The Party Streamed Into Sight Again P103 Don't Miss Your Grip of It P111 Looking for Some Landmark P124 He Rolled over on to his Side P130 Norah, Darling, Keep Your Heart up P135 They Haven't Hurt You, Norah, Have They P139 Hour of Arab Prayer P142 The Old Soldier Fell Forward Gasping P145 Certain That I Would Not Leave You Here P152 The Creature, Stood Still P171 The Great Caravan Route P 174 Sword in his Hand P184 Grimy Bodies Lay Senseless Under the Palm-trees P188 Took a Large, Shining Date out of the Moolah's Beard P210 Stand Up! Cried Mansoor P214 Don't Fret, John! Cried his Wife P217 The Colonel Was the Winner of This Terrible Lottery P222 Good-bye, Little Sadie P229 On This Pinnacle Stood a Motionless Figure P242 The Colonel Leaned Forward With his Pistol P247 You Haven't Got Such a Thing As A Cigar P253 Not a Word! Not A Word! P255 Arabs Were Caught Between Two Fires P261 He Delivered Them from Their Distress P273

SONGS OF THE ROAD BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

CONTENTS I. — NARRATIVE VERSES AND SONGS SONGS OF THE ROAD A HYMN OF EMPIRE SIR NIGEL'S SONG THE ARAB STEED A POST-IMPRESSIONIST EMPIRE BUILDERS THE GROOM'S ENCORE THE BAY HORSE THE OUTCASTS THE END 1902-1909 THE WANDERER {1} BENDY'S SERMON II. — PHILOSOPHIC VERSES COMPENSATION THE BANNER OF PROGRESS HOPE RELIGIO MEDICI MAN'S LIMITATION MIND AND MATTER DARKNESS III — MISCELLANEOUS VERSES A WOMAN'S LOVE BY THE NORTH SEA DECEMBER'S SNOW SHAKESPEARE'S EXPOSTULATION THE EMPIRE A VOYAGE THE ORPHANAGE SEXAGENARIUS LOQUITUR NIGHT VOICES THE MESSAGE THE ECHO ADVICE TO A YOUNG AUTHOR A LILT OF THE ROAD

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA ITS CAUSE AND CONDUCT CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. THE BOER PEOPLE 9 II. THE CAUSE OF QUARREL 23 III. THE NEGOTIATIONS 41 IV. SOME POINTS EXAMINED 61 V. THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE 73 VI. THE FARM-BURNING 84 VII. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS 94 VIII. THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN SOUTH AFRICA 107 IX. FURTHER CHARGES AGAINST BRITISH TROOPS 123 X. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION 133 XI. CONCLUSIONS 150

THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS AND OTHER TALES A. CONAN DOYLE CONTENTS PAGE I The Last of the Legions 9 II The Last Galley 22 III Through the Veil 37 IV The Coming of the Huns 47 V The Contest 68 VI The First Cargo 83 VII An Iconoclast 98 VIII Giant Maximin 112 IX The Red Star 141 X The Silver Mirror 158 XI The Home-Coming 177 XII A Point of Contact 202 XIII The Centurion 215

THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT AND OTHER TALES By A. Conan Doyle CONTENTS PAGE I The Brown Hand 9 II The Usher of Lea House School 30 III B. 24 51 IV The Great Keinplatz Experiment 72 V Cyprian Overbeck Wells 95 VI Playing with Fire 120 VII The Ring of Thoth 139 VIII The Los Amigos Fiasco 163 IX How It Happened 174 X Lot No. 249 179 XI "De Profundis" 225 XII The Lift 239

THE DEALINGS OF CAPTAIN SHARKEY and Other Tales of Pirates By A. Conan Doyle CONTENTS TALES OF PIRATES I Captain Sharkey: How the Governor of Saint Kitt's Came Home II The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock III The Blighting of Sharkey IV How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey V The "Slapping Sal" VI A Pirate of the Land (One Crowded Hour) TALES OF BLUE WATER VII The Striped Chest VIII The Captain of the "Polestar" IX The Fiend of the Cooperage X Jelland's Voyage XI J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement XII That Little Square Box

THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL and Other Tales of Adventure A. Conan Doyle CONTENTS TALES OF ADVENTURE I Début of Bimbashi Joyce II The Surgeon of Gaster Fell III Borrowed Scenes IV The Man from Archangel V The Great Brown-Pericord Motor VI The Sealed Room TALES OF MEDICAL LIFE VII A Physiologist's Wife VIII Behind the Times IX His First Operation X The Third Generation XI The Curse of Eve XII A Medical Document XIII The Surgeon Talks XIV The Doctors of Hoyland XV Crabbe's Practice

THE CRIME OF THE CONGO By A. Conan Doyle CONTENTS PAGE Preface iii Introduction vii How the Congo Free State Came to be Founded 3 The Development of the Congo State 9 The Working of the System 22 First Fruits of the System 27 Further Fruits of the System 39 Voices from the Darkness 46 Consul Roger Casement’s Report 57 King Leopold’s Commission and Its Report 68 The Congo After the Commission 87 Some Catholic Testimony as to the Congo 97 The Evidence Up to Date 102 The Political Situation 114 Some Congolese Apologies 118 Solutions 123 Appendix 127

THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH AND OTHER POEMS By Arthur Conan Doyle CONTENTS PAGE THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH 9 VICTRIX 13 THOSE OTHERS 16 HAIG IS MOVING 20 THE GUNS IN SUSSEX 22 YPRES 26 GROUSING 37 THE VOLUNTEER 40 THE NIGHT PATROL 44 THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY 47 THE BIGOT 55 THE ATHABASCA TRAIL 62 RAGTIME! 65 CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME 68 LINDISFAIRE 70 A PARABLE 75 FATE 76

THE WANDERINGS OF A SPIRITUALIST By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle CONTENTS PAGE