# The Sacred Herb

Author: Hume, Fergus, 1859-1932

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55642

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Sacred+Herb+Hume&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Lord Prelice felt desperately bored. Like Xeres, he longed for some new pleasure, yet knew not where to look for one. This was the result of being surfeited with the sweets of extraordinary good fortune. Born to a title, endowed with passable good looks, gifted with abilities above the average, and possessed of admirable health, he should have been the happiest of men; the more especially as his income ran well into five figures, and he had the whole wide world to play with. Certainly he had played with it and with life, up to his present age of thirty-five years. Perhaps this was the reason of his acute boredom. If all work and no play makes Jack dull; all play and no work must necessari...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-herb-55642/chapters/27/index.md)