The Book of All-Power

The Book of All-Power

 

by

 

Edgar Wallace

 

 

 

 

 

To

HARRY HUGHES-ONSLOW

 

 

        

Contents

 

 

    I. INTRODUCING MALCOLM HAY

    II. A GUN-MAN REFUSES WORK

    III. THE GRAND DUCHESS IRENE

    IV. THE PRINCE WHO PLANNED

    V. THE RAID ON THE SILVER LION

    VI. PRINCE SERGANOFF PAYS THE PRICE

    VII. KENSKY OF KIEFF

    VIII. THE GRAND DUKE IS AFFABLE

    IX. THE HAND AT THE WINDOW

    X. TERROR IN MAKING

    XI. THE COMMISSARY WITH THE CROOKED NOSE

    XII. IN THE PRISON OF ST. BASIL

    XIII. CHERRY BIM MAKES A STATEMENT

    XIV. IN THE HOLY VILLAGE

    XV. THE RED BRIDE

    XVI. THE BOOK OF ALL-POWER

    XVII. ON THE ROAD

    XVIII. THE MONASTERY OF ST. BASIL THE LEPER

    XIX. THE END OF BOOLBA

    CHAPTER THE LAST

        

        

I. INTRODUCING MALCOLM HAY

 

 

    If a man is not eager for adventure at the age of twenty-two, the enticement of romantic possibilities will never come to him.

    The chairman of the Ukraine Oil Company looked with a little amusement at the young man who sat on the edge of a chair by the chairman's desk, and noted how the eye of the youth had kindled at every fresh discouragement which the chairman had put forward. Enthusiasm, reflected the elder man, was one of the qualities which were most desirable in the man who was to accept the position which Malcolm Hay was at that moment considering.

    "Russia is a strange country," said Mr. Tremayne. "It is one of the mystery places of the world. You hear fellows coming back from China who tell you amazing stories of the idiosyncrasies of the Chink. But I can tell you, from my own personal observations, that the Chinaman is an open book in words of one syllable compared with the average Russian peasant. By the way, you speak Russian, I understand?"

    Hay nodded.

    "Oh, yes, sir," he said, "I have been talking Russian ever since I was sixteen, and I speak both the dialects."

    "Good!" nodded Mr. Tremayne.