The Great White Army

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Pemberton Max. The Great White Army

The Great White Army

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

THE WOMAN ON THE STAIRS. I

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V

VI

VII

VIII

CHAPTER II

THE GUILLOTINE

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IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

CHAPTER III

THE TREASURE IN THE WOODS. I

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III

IV

V

VI

VII

CHAPTER IV

PHANTOM MUSIC. I

II

III

IV

V

VI

CHAPTER V

THE CAMP BY THE RIVER. I

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III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

CHAPTER VI

THE WITCH IN ERMINE. I

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IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

CHAPTER VII

LITTLE PETROVKA. I

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IV

V

VI

VII

CHAPTER VIII

THE AFFAIR AT THE POST-HOUSE. I

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III

IV

V

VI

VII

CHAPTER IX

WE CROSS THE BÉRÉZINA. I

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III

IV

V

VI

VII

CHAPTER X

THE LAST REVIEW. I

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Max Pemberton

Published by Good Press, 2021

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I opened the window and looked down into the chapel. There were but two men there, and one was firing the curtains of the altar. So little did he fear interruption that I leaped down on him while his torch was still upraised, and, running him through with my sword, I pulled the burning curtain upon him and stamped the fire out upon his body. The other assassin watched me with eyes grown wide with fear. He had a torch in his hand, but he stood there as though spellbound, and when I made at him he fell headlong upon the staircase, and man and fire went rolling over and over together.

This did not alarm me, for the stairs were all stone, and there was nothing that could be kindled. Following the fellow through the bedroom, I came again upon the great staircase, and there looked down upon as strange a spectacle as I shall ever see in all my years. It was as though all the rabble of Moscow had come together in that magnificent hall—giant Tartars, low-caste assassins from the Indies, black-browed Slavs, patriarchs with long beards and youths with none—all were filling their sacks with the spoils of the prince's house and carrying them, when full, to the garden beyond. Animals in a den never fought more fiercely than some of these rogues when their lusts had clashed. Nor might a man have found a fiercer company in all the foul havens of the East.

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