The Golden Bough

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Gibbs George. The Golden Bough

CHAPTER I. CREPUSCULE

CHAPTER II. ENIGMA

CHAPTER III. MYSTERY

CHAPTER IV. TANYA

CHAPTER V. KHODKINE

CHAPTER VI. ZOYA

CHAPTER VII. CAMOUFLAGE

CHAPTER VIII. DISASTER

CHAPTER IX. SURPRISES

CHAPTER X. FLIGHT

CHAPTER XI. THE PLOT

CHAPTER XII. PURSUIT

CHAPTER XIII. A SCENT

CHAPTER XIV. THE CLUE

CHAPTER XV. THE TURKISH CIGARETTE

CHAPTER XVI. RESCUE

CHAPTER XVII. THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

CHAPTER XVIII. VON STROMBERG

CHAPTER XIX. A SAMARITAN

CHAPTER XX. ESCAPE

CHAPTER XXI. THE VISITOR

CHAPTER XXII. PILGRIMS

CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRIEST

CHAPTER XXIV. A NIGHT ADVENTURE

CHAPTER XXV. KEMPELSTEIN

CHAPTER XXVI. FINIS

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As the man came nearer, he seemed a remarkable creature. His coat, of the kind known in the eighties as a Prince Albert, hung loosely from his lean square shoulders, to a point midway between hip and knee. His hair was dark and long and wisps of it had fallen over his broad pale forehead to which they adhered as though a tight hat-band had pressed them there. Heavy eye-brows met above a long narrow nose, which jutted down over lips turned in, thin and impalpable, to the square chin which was thrust out aggressively as he strode forward, his hands working unpleasantly at the ends of his long wrists.

"What's this, Tanya Korasov?" he asked in a sharp querulous voice.

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"A boy? Yes. No doubt… But Destiny is too strong. Italian! What if-"

He paused, running his bony fingers through his long hair.

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