The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance

Brentham and his Wanyamwezi porters helped Mr. Stott complete his new station. Or they organized great shooting parties which enriched Mr. Stott with ivory that he might some da...

I wonder how you got away? Lucy and Maud, I suppose, you have left behind. The Kaiser seems rather friendly to us, they all say, and is going to be pacified with Samoa and more...

Well: I was married to my darling Roger last Wednesday, and if it wasn't every now and then that I think about poor John I should be the happiest woman alive. Mother, I've _alwa...

"Yes," said Lucy, with an ache at the back of her throat and almost inclined then and there to break off her engagement. "But I thought you might like to have John all to yourse...

John had prepared for some such contingency in crossing this desert strip by bringing several dozen coco-nuts and a case of his father's cider--at the mention of which Lucy's mo...

Then ensued a long silence and Lucy, now thoroughly interested, was getting anxious. But in January came a letter of many pages headed "Hangodi, Ulunga, November, 1886." John wr...

_Walrond_: "Hullo! Here's _Brentham_, the rescuer of beleaguered Gospellers. We've got a grudge against you. You came here months ago and were closeted with Spavins and never ga...

Lucy Baines, attended by Josiah Briggs's wife Halima, was taking the air on the outskirts of Hangodi. She had had a baby in the previous July, and was still weak and anaemic. Th...

Of the rock specimens, at least six give indications of great interest. Those two labelled "Iraku I" and "Iraku II" are so rich in gold that their importance must have been appa...

"The little I've read and heard shows me they would never do that. African cannibals, it seems, are rather careful whom they eat. Generally only their war captives or their old...

Once committed to the ascent the caravan had to continue, as there was no room in which to turn the donkeys round and descend again to the valley. All Roger could do was to insi...

The two children in the early morning--it is just after sunrise--are laughing and crowing with the excitement of the forming _safari_ and the coming start. The three-year-old bo...

As they advanced northwards the scenes grew more idyllic. Herds of gnus, hartebeests, elands, and zebras, intermingled with reed buck and impala, alternately stared in immobilit...

The assistant who registered the order for delivery in their next round, after Mrs. Bunsby left slipped into Mr. Baines's "libery," and half-whispered the news of Lucy's return....

They wished to preach nothing but "Christ crucified" and the new life which black men and white men should lead after "accepting of" this sacrifice, this atonement for the presu...

_Mrs. Stott_: "Ah, _there_ you touch my greatest sorrow. Yes. Every German I know on this concession keeps a native woman, mostly from our classes. But I fear--I fear--my nephew...

The central idea of this book came into my mind a great many years ago, out in Africa, and was based to some extent on what actually happened at Unguja and elsewhere. Yet, thoug...

Nor had Brentham any but the most honourable intentions. He felt tenderly and pitifully towards Lucy, carrying her country prettiness and innocency into savage Africa, embarking...

These were some of the musings of Sibyl when having her hair brushed by Sophie, or when undergoing Swedish massage under the firm but soothing hands of a blonde giantess; when b...

_Ann_: "You'd much better give up such a wild-goose chase as looking for the Stotts. Make for Kilimanjaro and the Mvita coast with Lucy. We've got mission stations in Taita and...

Lucy meantime tries to pretend she is interested in a book. It is far too hot to walk out and botanize. And then, what is the use of pressing these plants? The colour of the gor...

Then there was Ann Jamblin, of Tilehurst, a school-fellow of Lucy, a sturdy, plump young woman of about twenty-seven, with a dead-white complexion, a thick skin, black hair, bla...

The Dewburns are expecting promotion to a diplomatic post--possibly Persia. They feel their work here is done, now that the Anglo-German Treaty is ratified and Unguja is a Briti...

What was it that brought back the Red Crater to his mind, the sinister face and powerful figure of Stolzenberg; or the German Commandant in the fort at Kondoa? Whose was the thi...

"The operation took place--she was jolly careful to keep it out of the papers--I doubt if even Clithy knew anything till it was well over. He was travelling in Russia to study t...

At the beginning of 1909 a cloud came over their happiness, contentment, and sense of security in the future. In the first place the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and its accomp...

The months flew by through autumn, winter and spring. Roger established a stud farm in the Happy Valley where he could locate a captured dozen of zebra and interbreed with Maska...

Lucy said to herself she had never felt so miserable in her life as she did during the first night on board the _Jeddah_, the British India Co.'s steamer that was taking her to...

I've just had a line from Ann Jamblin. _She's_ got her head screwed on the right way. She left a month after Lucy and yet reached your station nearly as soon as you did. She did...

Villette-es-Vosges is well suited for the work of the old diplomacy. It is, to begin with, a _Ville d'eaux_; and in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, st...

He paused however at Tadley to give his father's cob--borrowed for the day--a feed and a rest. His ride lay through one of the loveliest parts of England in those days, before "...

A fortnight later a military force of one hundred Askari and two twelve-pounder mountain guns arrived at Wilhelmshoehe--as the entire scattered settlement of the Concession in t...

At Tabora he heard disquieting news about the Happy Valley. It was reported that the British-Boer army under General Smuts, which had already taken the southern slopes of Kilima...

_Brentham_: "Mrs. John Baines? She is, I believe, at Mr. Callaway's at the present moment. I advised her to go there as he is Agent here for their Mission, and would probably ha...