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Edwin Doidge. Nilda
Nilda
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AUTHOR of Marion Gorrisby, The Daughters of Eve, Little Maori Waif, Mysterious Mrs. Brown, Was She a Wicked Woman? Father and Son, &c., &c
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II.—THE COMING OF NILDA
CHAPTER III.—ENGLAND AWAKE
CHAPTER IV.—THE GENESIS OF NILDA
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI.—WHEN THE GUNS BEGIN TO SHOOT!
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII.—SMASH!!
CHAPTER IX.—"I DO NOT WANT HIM."
CHAPTER X.—WHAT OF THE HOST FROM EMDEN?
CHAPTER XI.—-COMING NEARER HOME
CHAPTER XII.—BEARDING THE LION IN HIS DEN
CHAPTER XIII.—ENTER, A NEW CHARACTER
CHAPTER XIV.—THE PLOT THICKENS
CHAPTER XV.—A GREAT BATTLE
CHAPTER XVI.—NILDA MADE PRISONER
CHAPTER XVII.—"WHERE IS NILDA?"
"MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
CHAPTER XVIII.—WAR AT OUR DOORS
CHAPTER XIX.—IN GERMAN HANDS
CHAPTER XX.—FROM TERROR TO TERROR.—A SURPRISE!
CHAPTER XXI.—BROUGHT UP IN PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER XXII.—THE WAR—HERE AND AT HOME
CHAPTER XXIII.—THE SEARCH
CHAPTER XXIV.—THE BATTLE OF WOOLER
CHAPTER XXV.—NILDA'S ALTERNATIVE.—"OUT INTO THE DARK."
CHAPTER XXVI.—THE BOMBARDMENT OF SYDNEY
CHAPTER XXVII.—VIEWED FROM THE PALACE.—THE PRICE OF NILDA
CHAPTER XXVIII.—THE WAR IN ENGLAND MOVES TO A SUDDEN CONCLUSION
AUTHOR'S FOOTNOTE
THE END
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Edwin Doidge
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It was the sudden news from Europe which had detained Mr. Horton later than usual in and about his office, and also on the way home. For now in every man's mouth was the word of war between the two great Powers of Europe, whose friendliness had never seriously been disturbed in all the long course of European history.
In many cases there were flippant remarks as to what would happen the Germans when they faced the British Bulldogs in their—the Britons'—own pet province, the rolling waters, on which supremacy had so long been conceded to them. But in wiser and more prudent minds, there was wide regret—nay, profound sorrow—that so mad a thing, so gigantic a misfortune, had occurred. Among these, certainly, was Reginald Horton. Eminently a man of peace, and schooled in its arts, educated in the arena where the pulses of great financial houses were felt beating with national and international undertakings, and where Credit was the giant, who lifted his little finger and pressed a button that had greater power than any archimedian lever, while Peace held sway, among the great nations of the world.
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