The Yellow Dove

The Yellow Dove
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Gibbs George. The Yellow Dove

PRELUDE

CHAPTER I. SHELTERED PEOPLE

CHAPTER II. THE UNDERCURRENT

CHAPTER III. RICE-PAPERS

CHAPTER IV. DANGEROUS SECRETS

CHAPTER V. THE PURSUIT CONTINUES

CHAPTER VI. RIZZIO TAKES CHARGE

CHAPTER VII. AN INTRUDER

CHAPTER VIII. EVIDENCE

CHAPTER IX. THE VIKING’S TOWER

CHAPTER X. THE YELLOW DOVE

CHAPTER XI. VON STROMBERG

CHAPTER XII. HAMMERSLEY EXPLAINS

CHAPTER XIII. THE UNWILLING GUEST

CHAPTER XIV. VON STROMBERG CATECHISES

CHAPTER XV. THE INQUISITION

CHAPTER XVI. THE GENERAL PLAYS TO WIN

CHAPTER XVII. LINDBERG

CHAPTER XVIII. SUCCESS

CHAPTER XIX. THE CAVE ON THE THORWALD

CHAPTER XX. THE FIGHT IN THE CAVERN

CHAPTER XXI. HARE AND HOUNDS

CHAPTER XXII. FROM THE HEIGHTS

CHAPTER XXIII. HEADQUARTERS

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Lady Betty Heathcote had a reputation in which she took pride for giving successful dinners in a neighborhood where successful dinners were a rule rather than an exception. Her prescription was simple and consisted solely in compounding her social elements by strenuous mixing. She had a faculty for discovering cubs with incipient manes and saw them safely grown without mishap. At her house in Park Lane, politics, art, literature, and science rubbed elbows. Here pictures had been born, plays had had their real premières, novels had been devised, and poems without number, not a few of which were indited to My Lady Betty’s eyebrow, here first saw the light of day.

For all her dynamic energy in a variety of causes, most of them wise, all of them altruistic, Lady Betty had the rare faculty of knowing when to be restful. Tired Cabinet ministers, overworked lords of the Admiralty, leaders in all parties, knew that in Park Lane there would be no questions asked which it would not be possible to answer, that there was always an excellent dinner to be had without frills, a lounge in a quiet room, or, indeed, a pair of pyjamas and a bed if necessary.

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“But how could such an aëroplane leave the shores of England without being remarked?” asked Kipshaven.

“Oh,” laughed Sandys, “answer me that and we have the solution of the problem. A strict watch is being kept on the coasts, and the government employees—the postmen, police, secret-service men of every town and village from here to the Shetlands are on the lookout—but not a glimpse have they had of him, not a sign of his arrival or departure, but only last week he was reported by a destroyer flying toward the English coast.”

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