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The Choice of LifeGeorgette Leblanc The Choice of Life Women are ever divided by a miserable distrust, whereas all their weaknesses intertwined might make for their lives a crown of love and strength and beauty.... How one of them strove to deliver her unhappy friend, the words which she spoke to...

813Maurice Leblanc 813 CHAPTER I THE TRAGEDY AT THE PALACE HOTEL Mr. Kesselbach stopped short on the threshold of the sitting-room, took his secretary's arm and, in an anxious voice, whispered:"Chapman, some one has been here again.""Surely not, sir," protested the secretary. "You have just opene...

The Secret of SarekLeblanc Maurice The Secret of Sarek FOREWORDThe war has led to so many upheavals that not many people now remember the Hergemont scandal of seventeen years ago. Let us recall the details in a few lines.One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a series of well...

The Tremendous EventLeblanc Maurice The Tremendous Event AUTHOR'S NOTE The tremendous event of the 4th. of June, whose consequences affected the relations of the two great Western nations even more profoundly than did the war, has called forth, during the last fifty years, a constant efflorescenc...

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene LupinMaurice Leblanc The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin CHAPTER ONE THE SHOT Raymonde listened. The noise was repeated twice over, clearly enough to be distinguished from the medley of vague sounds that formed the great silence of...

The Glow-Worm and Other BeetlesJean-Henri Fabre The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles TRANSLATOR'S NOTE This is the second volume on Beetles in the complete English edition of Henri Fabre's entomological works. The first is entitled The Sacred Beetle and Others; the second and the third will be known a...

The FrontierLeblanc Maurice The Frontier PART I CHAPTER I A HEAD BETWEEN THE BUSHES "They've done it!""What?""The German frontier-post … at the circus of the Butte-aux-Loups.""What about it?""Knocked down.""Nonsense!""See for yourself."Old Morestal stepped aside. His wife came out of the drawing-...