Across the Cameroons: A Story of War and Adventure

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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