Police!!!

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Robert W. Chambers. Police!!!

Police!!!

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FOREWORD

PREFACE

POLICE!!!

THE THIRD EYE

"Climbing about among the mangroves above the water"

"To see him feed made me sick."

"'Kemper!' I shouted. … 'He is one of them! Knock him flat with your riflestock!'"

THE IMMORTAL

I

"'Say, listen, Bo—I mean, Prof. I've got the goods.'"

II

"He played on his concertina … on the chance that the music might lure a cave-girl down the hill."

"Moving warily and gracefully amid the great coquina slabs."

"I collapsed into the arms of the nicest looking one."

THE LADIES OF THE LAKE

I

II

"The heavy artillery was evidently frightened."

"Somebody had swooned in his arms, too."

III

"'If you keep me up this tree and starve me to death it will be murder.'"

"Then a horrible thing occurred."

ONE OVER

I

III

IV

"I felt so sorry for her that I kissed her."

V

"Out of the mud rose five or six dozen mammoths."

"Dr. Delmour used up every film in the camera to record the scientific triumph of the ages."

"'Everybody has put one over on me!' I shrieked."

UN PEU D'AMOUR

"Miss Blythe had carried to her father a large bucket of lettuce leaves."

"'Don't let it bite!' cried the girl. 'Be careful, Mr. Smith!'"

"Kicked over the bucket of salad, and began to dance with rage."

"'It's a worm!' shrieked Blythe."

THE EGGS OF THE SILVER MOON

"'Which way do you usually go home?' I asked."

"'This little caterpillar … is certain to find those leaves.'"

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Robert W. Chambers

Published by Good Press, 2019

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I introduced him. Evelyn Grey seemed a trifle indifferent. A good-looking man doesn't last long with a clever woman. I smiled to myself, polishing my spectacles gleefully. Yet, I had no idea why I was smiling.

We three people turned and walked toward the comb of the reef. A solitary palm represented the island's vegetation, except, of course, for the water-growing mangroves.

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