Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
Wilson Renshaw, the most brilliant member of the House of Commons, was on the verge of a complete breakdown at the end of the memorable Session of 1930, a session in which the marshalled forces of Socialism, allied with the insurgent women of England, had almost, but not quite...
The night which followed her heartsearching experience of feeling on looking down upon the sleeping city of Bath, Zenobia had a dream. It was a vision of extraordinary vividness...
23. CHAPTER XXI.The earthquake, in the twinkling of an eye, had changed the face of all nature around them, and while it did so it annihilated stereotyped manners and conventional restraints. T...
17. CHAPTER XV.While the dead were being buried and the wounded removed, there was a long cessation of the savage struggle. Indeed, the long lull in the firing almost led some people to believ...
20. CHAPTER XVIII.The little island of Herm possessed only one building of importance, a monastery of French refugees. In the great walled-in courtyard, there was present an object of special and...
13. CHAPTER XI.On every side the continued rivalry between the sexes in their struggle for supremacy in national life was producing lamentable results. To this general evil now was added the n...
8. CHAPTER VI.England was agitated by two items of the latest intelligence. The same journal which announced the sudden and serious illness of President Jardine also recorded a bold move in t...
15. CHAPTER XIII.It was the suddenness of the calamity that staggered humanity. One day not a cloud in the over-seas sky, and the next a catastrophe that petrified the nation. In London the hoar...
19. CHAPTER XVII.Flossie had spoken. Silent resentment, obdurately nursed for quite two days, had given place to voluble reproaches. He was naughty, she told her father; never before had she kno...
14. CHAPTER XII.Low lay the head, and still the form of the man of whom flatterers had often spoken as the uncrowned King--an Oliver the Second, the Cromwell of the Twentieth Century. His, inde...
16. CHAPTER XIV.The enemy still held the fort. All through the night a terrific bombardment had been maintained, and even when the first grey line of dawn began to creep across the downs the in...
5. CHAPTER III.Sir Robert groaned. "Air-boats! Wish they'd never been invented." He flicked away the ash of his cigar and gazed at the first stars faintly twinkling in the evening sky. They we...
7. CHAPTER V.All through the following day the deep impressions of the previous evening held Linton as one is held by the memory of some haunting and impressive dream. Everything down below...
21. CHAPTER XIX.While the fierce struggle for Fort Warden was proceeding, and while Nicholas Jardine lay dying, the Vice-President of the Council and her adherents were engaged in desperate eff...
4. CHAPTER II.So much for the man. What of the Empire? Nicholas Jardine had witnessed, and assisted in, its collapse. He had witnessed the result of a "corner" in food stuffs, and discovered...
10. CHAPTER VIII.To counteract the dangers arising from the Channel Tunnel, long since an accomplished fact, and to soothe the apprehensions of a large section of the public, new defence works o...
18. CHAPTER XVI.That important person, Miss Flossie Wardlaw, was extremely angry! Events were interfering with her plan of life, and upsetting all her theories of fitness. The preoccupation, th...
9. CHAPTER VII.After the great and epoch-making meeting in Queen's Hall, the disturbed state of public feeling was accentuated. It was generally felt that the sex-conflict which the revolt of...
22. CHAPTER XX.Linton Herrick, losing not a day nor an hour in London, had carried the great news to Zenobia. Much that wired and wireless messages could not convey, he, as one of the inner ci...
11. CHAPTER IX.It was a far cry from Bladud to Nicholas Jardine! A goodly span, too, from the time when a great statesman was carried through the streets of Bath, swathed in flannels; his livi...
3. CHAPTER I.The fall of England synchronised with the rise of Nicholas Jardine--first Labour Prime Minister of this ancient realm. When he married it was considered by his wife's relations...
2. CHAPTER II.Through all those dreadful years Wilson Renshaw lived--lived day and night the tortured life of a white man at the mercy of the black. Year after year the iron entered his soul,...
6. CHAPTER IV.The _Bladud_ passed swiftly over Paddington Station, and followed the line of the Edgware Road to the Marble Arch. The incessant roar of the traffic below reached their ears, an...
1. CHAPTER I.Wilson Renshaw, the most brilliant member of the House of Commons, was on the verge of a complete breakdown at the end of the memorable Session of 1930, a session in which the m...