Category: Adventure
The Mountain of Fears
WHOSE ILLUMINATING PERSONALITY AND STRANGE EXPERIENCES I HAVE VENTURED TO INTERPRET IN THE HOPE THAT WHEN HE RETURNS FROM HIS QUEST IN THE “FORBIDDEN LAND” HE WILL PARDON MY PRESUMPTION.
Chapters
1. Part 1
WHOSE ILLUMINATING PERSONALITY AND STRANGE EXPERIENCES I HAVE VENTURED TO INTERPRET IN THE HOPE THAT WHEN HE RETURNS FROM HIS QUEST IN THE “FORBIDDEN LAND” HE WILL PARDON MY PRE...
2. Part 2“Vinckers observed this thing,” continued Leyden. “Vinckers was an unimaginative man, and consequently the impression on him was as it would have been upon a dry plate, or the t...
3. Part 3“It is not of the physical but of the mental that I speak!” he interrupted, a bit testily. “It is an undeserved compliment to the negro and an unjust insult to the white to clai...
4. Part 4“The canoe was half waterlogged, and I knew that it would not carry us very far, so I decided to try and get to Margherita and take our chances on the rest. When the day broke I...
5. Part 5“A man of method, as the order of his effects proclaimed him to be, would never have left his house without putting away his personal effects, Doctor, so I decided to rummage. I...
6. Part 6“He grinned again. I got out my microscope and went ashore with him, to find that he was correct. The cripple’s blood swarmed with the malarial organisms, but we managed to over...
7. Part 7“I led him along the angle of the wall until we came to the casemates where the sentry had said that the prisoners were confined, and then, as we paused before the first of thes...
8. Part 8“‘You would enjoy it,’ said the Count to his wife. ‘Myself, I dread the dust and the heat. Go with Mr. Stewart, if you wish’—his smile was nothing short of angelic as he said th...
9. Part 9“‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘I am taking him with me; he is so intelligent that he soon accustoms himself to new surroundings; besides, he would die if I left him behind.’
10. Part 10“For ten days this thing went on. Every day or two Dixie would find a nest of eggs, but at the end of that time he could find no more, and after two days of hunger Deshay, backe...
11. Part 11Leyden chuckled. “Like master, like man in this savage country,” he remarked, absently. “But I was telling you about Fouchère. When I had got my snails and a beetle or two I rem...
12. Part 12“The firm mouth stiffened and the triangular space which it occupied beneath the bandages grew suddenly white. At a sign from the doctor we picked him up and carried him to his...