BEATRICE GRIMSHAW
Reading edition
Author of “Vaiti of the Island,” “When the Red Gods Call,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES SARKA
PHILADELPHIA THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1914, by The John C. Winston Co. Copyright, 1913, 1914, by The Ridgway Company
CONTENTS
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I. The Sorcerer’s Stone 11
II. The Jumping Bamboo 55
III. The Empty Diving Dress 93
IV. The Fight at Twelve Fathoms 133
V. The Secret of the Stone Oven Country 175
VI. How they Buried Bobby-the-Clock 223
VII. Concerning a Cassowary and a Hymn Book 267
ILLUSTRATIONS
I saw Mrs. Daisie’s little hand pause for a moment at the odd lump under his shirt and feel it with the dexterity of a pickpocket Frontispiece
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I made straight for the sound, and there in the growing moonlight, behind the white stems of a clump of betel-palm, was the Marquis—dancing 18
I have never been called a nervous man; but I was down the ladder and out in the street almost before the Marquis 67
The spectacle of the Marquis, in a dirty singlet and trousers, and bare feet, doing the war-dance of the priests in “Athalie” in the main street at two o’clock in the morning, is one of the things I expect to remember all the rest of my life 120
It was awful to see them struggling and reeling and gripping at each other, there at the bottom of the sea, where a tangled life-line or a nipped air-tube meant certain death 159
I cannot describe the extraordinary appearance he made there on the mountain-top in the scarlet dawn, with the cannibals looking on while he performed his incantations 217
His gigantic figure, clad in pink and green pajamas, seemed to fill the store; he had at least a dozen arms and legs and every one of them smashed everything it touched 260
The bird stretched out its neck with the darting pounce of a snake, snatched at the gaudy little book, gulped, swallowed and—— 301
I THE SORCERER’S STONE