Across the Cameroons: A Story of War and Adventure
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Gilson Charles. Across the Cameroons: A Story of War and Adventure
CHAPTER I-Captain von Hardenberg
CHAPTER II-The Sunstone
CHAPTER III-Caught Red-handed
CHAPTER IV-False Evidence
CHAPTER V-The Eleventh Hour
CHAPTER VI-The Pursuit Begins
CHAPTER VII-Into the Bush
CHAPTER VIII-Danger Ahead
CHAPTER IX-The Captive
CHAPTER X-When All was Still
CHAPTER XI-A Shot from the Clouds
CHAPTER XII-The Mystery of the Running Man
CHAPTER XIII-The Black Dog
CHAPTER XIV-Buried Alive!
CHAPTER XV-The Valley of the Shadow
CHAPTER XVI-The Enemy in Sight
CHAPTER XVII-A Shot by Night
CHAPTER XVIII-A Dash for Liberty
CHAPTER XIX-War to the Knife
CHAPTER XX-Honour among Thieves
CHAPTER XXI-The Last Cartridge
CHAPTER XXII-The Conquest of a Colony
CHAPTER XXIII-Attacked
CHAPTER XXIV-The Caves
CHAPTER XXV-The Lock
CHAPTER XXVI-The White Madman
CHAPTER XXVII-The Black Dog Bites
CHAPTER XXVIII-A Race for Life
CHAPTER XXIX-The Temple
CHAPTER XXX-The Blood Spoor
CHAPTER XXXI-The Fox in View
CHAPTER XXXII-Between Two Fires
CHAPTER XXXIII-On the Brink of Eternity
CHAPTER XXXIV-The Sunstone Found
CHAPTER XXXV-A Brother
CHAPTER XXXVI-The Twelfth Hour
CHAPTER XXXVII-Too Late!
CHAPTER XXXVIII-Conclusion
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"Well," said the Judge, pushing aside the plate of soup which he had hardly tasted, "I don't know whether or not the story will interest you. It ought to, because it's romantic, and also melodramatic-that is to say, it is concerned with death. It came into my possession nine years ago, when I was presiding judge at Sierra Leone. I remember being informed by the police that a native from the region of Lake Chad had come into the country with several Arabs on his track. He had fled for his life from the hills; he had gone as far south as the Congo, and had then cut back on his tracks; and all this time, over thousands of miles of almost impenetrable country, the Arabs-slave-traders by repute-had clung to his heels like bloodhounds. In Sierra Leone he turned upon his tormentors and killed two of them. He was brought before me on a charge of murder, and I had no option but to sentence him to death. The day before he was hanged he wished to see me, and I visited him in prison. He gave into my hands a large, circular piece of jade, and I have kept it ever since, always looking upon it merely as a curiosity and a memento of a very unpleasant duty. Never for a moment did I dream it was the Sunstone itself.
"Now, before you can understand the whole story, you must know something of Zoroaster. Zoroaster was the preacher, or prophet, who was responsible for the most ancient religion in the world. He was the first of the Magi, or the Wise Men of the East, and it was he who framed the famous laws of the Medes and Persians. He is supposed to have lived more than six thousand years before Christ.
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"How careless, to be sure!" exclaimed the Judge. "I had no business to leave my cash-box open. The truth is, I was so excited about this discovery that I forgot to put it away."
"And where's the Sunstone?" asked von Hardenberg.
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