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The Book of All-Power
By Edgar Wallace
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
London and Melbourne
To Harry Hughes-Onslow
CONTENTS
I INTRODUCING MALCOLM HAY
II A GUN-MAN REFUSES WORK
III THE GRAND DUCHESS IRENE
IV THE PRINCE WHO PLANNED
V THE RAID ON THE SILVER LION
VI PRINCE SERGANOFF PAYS THE PRICE
VII KENSKY OF KIEFF
VIII THE GRAND DUKE IS AFFABLE
IX THE HAND AT THE WINDOW
X TERROR IN MAKING
XI THE COMMISSARY WITH THE CROOKED NOSH
XII IN THE PRISON OF ST. BASIL
XIII CHERRY BIM MAKES A STATEMENT
XIV IN THE HOLY VILLAGE
XV THE RED BRIDE
XVI THB BOOK OF ALL-POWER
XVII ON THE ROAD
XVIII THE MONASTERY OF ST. BASIL THE LEPER
XIX THE END OF BOOLBA
XX CHAPTER THE LAST
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCING MALCOLM HAY
IF a man is not eager for adventure at the age of twenty-two, the enticement of romantic possibilities will never come to him.
The chairman of the Ukraine Oil Company looked with a little amusement at the young man who sat on the edge of a chair by the chairman's desk, and noted how the eye of the youth had kindled at every fresh discouragement which the chairman had put forward. Enthusiasm, reflected the elder man, was one of the qualities which were most desirable in the man who was to accept the position which Malcolm Hay was at that moment considering.
"Russia is a strange country," said Mr. Tremayne. "It is one of the mystery places of the world. You hear fell