This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...of food which, as it happened by one of those strange freaks with which the Fates delight to mock alike the memories and the delights of men, had made for him the difference between a little heap of bleaching bones in the solitudes of the great Australian desert and the man who was standing that evening in the drawing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...of food which, as it happened by one of those strange freaks with which the Fates delight to mock alike the memories and the delights of men, had made for him the difference between a little heap of bleaching bones in the solitudes of the great Australian desert and the man who was standing that evening in the drawing-room of Lady Georgina Pontifex in the big corner house in Grosvenor Place facing Buckingham Palace Gardens--Hedley Siemens, millionaire twenty times over, absolute owner of a patch of desert ground twenty miles square in the midst of which stood that lonely hill on the slope of which Godfrey Enstone had lain down, as he thought, to die. Now it was humming with life and bustling with industry, honeycombed through and through with drives and shafts and tunnels out of which the rattling trucks and hurrying ships were bringing out the gold-laden ore, half of which, amounting now to many millions of pounds in value, should have been the property of the man who, for all he knew, had died where he had left him. "Enstone--Enstone," he repeated to his friend, Colonel Forester, lately retired with the V.C. and many medals and minus half his left arm which had been knocked off by a pom-pom shell, as he was pulling a badly wounded and very green subaltern out of a hot corner in one of the little "disasters" of the Boer War. "You don't mean the Northumberland Enstones, do you, Colonel?" "Oh, yes, 1 don't know of any others, and, as a matter of fact, the family is extinct. Why do you ask, if it isn't a rude question?" "Because," said the millionaire slowly, still keeping his eyes, already kindling with an unwonted fire, on the most beautiful face even in that room where every woman was or had been a beauty i...
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