What you are driving at I cannot imagine, said the Englishman, but if you mean that you will answer my question about the catacomb if I answer any question which you may put to me I can assure you that I will certainly do so. Well, then, said Burger,...
Kennedy loved his subject with a love which was almost a maniaa love which held him true to it, amidst all the distractions which come to a wealthy and dissipated young man. He had ambition, but his ambition was secondary to his mere abstract joy and...
I wont interfere with your treasure-trove, but I should very much like to hear about it, he continued, while Burger very deliberately lit a cigar. It is evidently a discovery of the first importance. These inscriptions will make a sensation throughou...
And yet for some years there had been an acquaintanceship which appeared to be slowly ripening into a friendship between these two very different rivals. The base and origin of this lay in the fact that in their own studies each was the only one of t...
Of a very different type was his companion, Julius Burger. He came of a curious blend, a German father and an Italian mother, with the robust qualities of the North mingling strangely with the softer graces of the South. Blue Teutonic eyes lightened...
搜索 复制 And then there was Myrtles head. Do you really believedoes anybody really believethat a mans head could be driven clean into his body by the force of a fall? Well, perhaps it may be possible, but I, for one, have never believed that it...
搜索 复制 Aeroplaning has been with us now for more than twenty years, and one might well ask: Why should this peril be only revealing itself in our day? The answer is obvious. In the old days of weak engines, when a hundred horse-power Gnome or...
搜索 复制 Another was the morbid effect which the fall of Lieutenant Myrtle had upon his mind. Myrtle, who was attempting the height record, fell from an altitude of something over thirty thousand feet. Horrible to narrate, his head was entirely...
搜索 复制 The first two pages of the manuscript are missing. There is also one torn away at the end of the narrative, though none of these affect the general coherence of the story. It is conjectured that the missing opening is concerned with the...
搜索 复制 The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who ha...
