Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Prince Zaleski

Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski--victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the fulgor of the throne itself could not abash; exile perforce from his native land, and voluntary exile from the rest of men! Having renounced t...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski--victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the fulgor of the throne itself could not abas...

2. Chapter 2

'We arrive now at this hour of eight P.M. on this 10th day of January. The night is dark and windy; some snow has been falling, but has now ceased. In an upper room is Randolph...

3. Chapter 3

'Let us then see if we can by searching find out any absolutely certain deviation from right on the part of Randolph, in which we may be quite sure that his father was not an ab...

4. Chapter 4

I reproduce these remarks of Zaleski here, not so much on account of the splendid tribute to my country contained in them, as because it ever seemed to me--and especially in con...

5. Chapter 5

'But let us bend our minds to the details of this matter. Let us ask first, _who_ is this Ul-Jabal? I have said that he is a Persian, and of this there is abundant evidence in t...

6. Chapter 6

To say that there are epidemics of suicide is to give expression to what is now a mere commonplace of knowledge. And so far are they from being of rare occurrence, that it has e...

7. Chapter 7

I was deeply touched by the demeanour of Ham as the hours went by. He wandered stealthily about the rooms like a lost being. It was like matter sighing after, weeping over, spir...

8. Chapter 8

'And now let me apply these facts to the Europe of our own time. We no longer have world-serious war--but in its place we have a scourge, the effect of which on the modern state...