Until five o'clock there was silence both in the works and on the
ships in the harbour. Then, as the southern sun began to climb on its
upward curve, the eight searchlights on the towers blazed out, looking
ghostly white in the twilight. They were arranged so that they formed
two intersecting triangles on each face of the works.
From the top of the western gate flamed a huge star. It was a
ten-million-candle-power light, and its radiance, cast directly upon
the harbour, was so intense that while the ships were flooded with
light, the dim, watery rays of the sun made twilight in comparison
with it.
"That is well managed," said Admiral Nazanoff to the count as they
were taking their early coffee on the bridge of the ice-breaker. "I
suppose that devil-ray, or whatever they call it, is running along
those lights, and so making a barrier that no living thing can pass
without destruction. It is an amazing invention, whatever it is; but
it is murder, not war. Still, if it comes to an assault, we must rush
it. Meanwhile it is to be hoped that our guns will have destroyed
their infernal apparatus.
"You see, we have six ships here in line abreast, and twelve guns,
each throwing a melinite shell of not less than a hundred pounds, are
trained on the face of the building. When your excellency has fired
the first shot they will open, and, at the same time, fifty smaller
quick-firers will sweep the walls in such a fashion that no living
thing will exist for a moment, either on top of them or in front. In
fact, once let us destroy the apparatus which generates that horrible
devil-ray, I can give it no other name, and the works are ours."
"But the shooting will not be all on our side, admiral, I fear," said
the count. "That is a very terrible little gun that they have on the
_Nadine_. It was only a twelve-pounder, but a couple of shots sent the
_Vlodoya_ to the bottom, and this man Vandel--if the light had been
better he would not have been living now--told me himself that they
had guns ten times as powerful on the works."
"Most probably a little Yankee bluff, my dear count," said the
admiral. "I dislike those searchlights much more than I fear the guns.
You see, it is almost impossible to take an accurate aim against a
searchlight, while it is perfectly easy to shoot from behind or below
them. Still, all our guns are fortunately laid already. Yours, which
is the starboard one down yonder, is trained on the gate in the
centre. The shell will pierce that, and if it strikes the engine-house
or whatever it is in the middle of the square it will probably disable
the works. That, I believe, is the heart and centre of the whole
system."
"It is very probable," said the count, who had already described what
he had seen of the works to the admiral, "and I hope my shot will find
it, for then my poor Sophie will be partly, at least, avenged. It was
a terrible end for two such beautiful women, was it not, admiral?
Fargeau did not matter so much; for, after all, he was only a
half-turned traitor and spy."
"It was the most awful sight I have ever beheld," replied the admiral;
"indeed I cannot think that human eyes could look upon anything more
horrible. But by mid-day I hope our guns will have avenged them as
completely as good shot and shell can do. And now, excellency, with
your permission we must have our last council of war; I must see my
captains and arrange the last details with Admiral Dumont, as it is
getting near six. I took the trouble of setting my watch by the clock
in the reception-room."
"And mine," said the count, taking out his repeater, "has been going
with it for days. When this chimes six we may begin."
Within a few minutes the two admirals and the captains of the
different vessels went, by appointment, to the cabin of the _Ivan_,
and the last details were arranged. As the clock struck six every
available gun was to open on the western face of the works, and the
fire of the heaviest guns was to be concentrated on the towers and the
central gate until the searchlights were extinguished and the deadly
rays rendered impotent.
Meanwhile boats and steam-pinnaces were to be ready to land the
sailors and marines with their machine-guns, and as soon as there was
reason to believe that the rays were no longer operative, a general
advance in force was to be made on the western gate. No quarter was to
be given; no prisoners taken. Victor Fargeau had left his father's
legacy and all necessary directions for operating the works with
Admiral Dumont, and so there would be no necessity for any assistance
from the prisoners, and therefore no need to take any.
At five minutes to six Count Valdemar and Admiral Nazanoff went down
on to the fore-deck. At the same moment that they were making their
last examination of the guns, a thin ray of electric light shone out
from the top of a little rocky promontory to the north of the harbour,
where there was a little white tower which the invaders had taken for
a harmless and necessary lighthouse. The ray fell directly on the
fore-deck of the _Ivan_.
"Ah," said the admiral, stepping back under the protection of the top
works, "take care, your excellency, that is only about a hundred
metres off, and they may have one of those infernal rays there."
"It is six o'clock," said the count, taking his watch in his left hand
and the lanyard of the gun in his right. The beam of ghostly light
wavered and fell on him as he stepped back to pull. The next instant
the flesh of his uplifted hand melted away from the bones, the lanyard
fell away. With a cry of agony he dropped his hand, and then the
terrible ray fell on his face. The horror-stricken officers and men
saw it change from a face to a skull, watched his fur cap shrivel up
and vanish, the hair and flesh on his scalp disappear. Then he
dropped, and the bare skull struck the steel deck with a queer sharp
click.
A sudden paralysis of horror fell upon officers and men alike, until
the admiral roared out an order to turn the port gun on to the
lighthouse. He was obeyed, and the gun was fired hurriedly; the shell
struck the rock just below the lighthouse and exploded with a terrific
report, but the living rock held good, and the deadly ray shone on.
The gunner who had fired it was blasted to a skeleton in a moment, and
the rest of the officers and men ran for shelter like so many
frightened hares. They were ready to face any ordinary danger, but
this was too awful for mortal courage.
Then the ray wandered over the fore-decks and bridges of the other
ships till it reached the _Caiman_, on the bridge of which Admiral
Dumont was standing, a horrified spectator of what had happened on the
_Ivan_. He had a pistol in his hand; a shot was to be the signal
for the French vessels to open fire. The ray fell on his hand as he
raised it to fire, the hand shrivelled to bone before he could pull
the trigger. But the gunners had seen the signal, and the guns roared
out. Over fifty guns of all calibres roared and crackled for a minute
or so, and a brief hurricane of shell swept across the stony plain
between the harbour and the works.
Then it stopped. Every gun was silent, for not a man dared go near it.
Every officer and man who had shown himself in the open had been
reduced to a heap of bones before he could get back under shelter.
Then those who were out of reach of the terrible death-rays saw six
long guns rise from the masked batteries beside the two towers and
over the central gate. There was no flash or report, but the next
moment six hundred-pound shells, charged with Vandelite, had struck
the French and Russian vessels, and, as a fighting force, the
expeditions had practically ceased to exist.
Every ship was hit either in her hull or her top works. The steel
structures crumpled up and collapsed under the terrible energy of the
explosion. The steel-walled casemates were cracked and ripped open as
though they had been built of common deal, and every man on deck
within twenty yards of the explosion dropped dead or insensible. Both
admirals were killed almost at the same moment.
The guns sank back and rose again, and again the explosions crashed
out on board the doomed ships. The death-ray played continuously over
their decks and every man who showed himself fell dead with the flesh
withered from his face and skull. The terrible bombardment lasted for
about a quarter of an hour, and then when only the _Caiman_ and _Ivan_
were left afloat, and the crews of the other vessels had either gone
down with them or had swum or scrambled ashore in the boats, the guns
ceased, and the rays were shut off.
This ended the fight, if, indeed, fight it could be called. Several of
the shells had struck the walls and blown out large portions of the
facings, but no vital spot had been touched, thanks to the difficulty
of taking aim in the blinding glare of the searchlights. The little
lighthouse on the north point, which had proved such a veritable tower
of strength, was still unharmed, although the rocks about it were
splintered and pulverised by shell-fire.
Only about a dozen petty officers and a couple of hundred sailors and
stokers escaped, and most of them were half-mad with fear. They were
ordered back on board the _Ivan_, which, thanks to her enormously
strong construction, had stood the terrible bombardment better than
the _Caiman_. Her topworks were smashed out of all shape, and her
decks were ripped and rent in all directions, but her hull was still
sound, and a few days' work at her engines would make them
serviceable. And in her the survivors of the ill-fated expedition
ultimately went back to Europe with a formal message from the
directors of the Trust to the governments of France and Russia,
expressing their regret that so much damage and loss of life had
resulted from the act of piracy committed by those who had mistaken
the Magnetic for the North Pole.
The _Corneille_, the old wooden ship which had conveyed Madame de
Bourbon out of the range of the guns and the death-ray, was brought
back the next morning by the _Nadine_ and the _Washington_, whose
business it had been to stop the escape of any French or Russian
vessel from the waters of Boothia, and as she was immediately
available for the service, she carried Madame de Bourbon back to
France. With her she took a small box of oak, which contained all that
the death-ray had left of Adelaide de Conde, Marquise de Montpensier,
the last, save herself, of the daughters of the old line of the
Bourbons.
A similar casket containing the bones of Sophie Valdemar and her
father were sent under her care to the count's brother, whose place in
Petersburg was less than a hundred yards distant from the German
Embassy, the scene of the reception where what was now but dry bones,
dust, and ashes, had been life and beauty and subtly working brains,
plotting for the possession of the world-empire, whose throne was not
now in any of the splendid capitals of Europe, or of the east, or
west, but within the four-square limits--measuring four hundred feet
each way--within which the World Masters reigned impregnable and
supreme.
EPILOGUE
The short Northern summer was drawing rapidly to its close when
Chrysie and Hardress were pronounced fit to travel. Hardress had had a
very narrow shave, for one of the count's bullets had grazed the right
lung, and the wound had brought on an acute attack of pleural
inflammation.
Chrysie's wounds had healed within a fortnight, and as soon as she was
able to get about she did her best to supplant Lady Olive as nurse in
the sickroom.
"You may be his sister," she said, in answer to a strong protest from
Lady Olive, "and you're just as good a sister as a man wants to have;
but I hope I'm going to be something more than a sister; and so, if
he's going to be mine and I'm going to be his, I want to do the rest.
After all, you see it's only a sort of looking after one's own
property."
Just at this moment Hardress woke up and turned a languid head and a
pair of weary and yet eager eyes upon the two girls.
"Chrysie," he said, in a thick, hoarse whisper, and yet through
smiling lips, "in the speech of your own country, you've got it in
once. There's just one thing I want now to make me well. You know what
it is. Come and give it me."
"Why, you mean thing!" said Chrysie, going towards the bed, "I believe
you've heard everything we've been saying."
"Some of it," he whispered. "What about that reserve--that territory,
you know, that I was supposed to have an option on in Buffalo?"
"Buffalo's not Boothia, Shafto," she replied, using his Christian name
for the first time since they had known each other; "but the reserve's
all right. I guess you've only got to take up your option when you
want it."
"Then I'll take it now," he whispered again, looking weariedly and yet
with an infinite longing into her eyes.
"And so you shall," she said, leaning down over the bed. "You have
done the work--you and Lord Orrel and poppa. You've done everything
that you said you would; you're masters of the world, and, as far as
mortals can be, controllers of human destiny--you and Doctor Lamson.
He began it, didn't he? If it hadn't been for him and his knowledge
you'd have done nothing at all. And he's got his reward too. That's
so; isn't it, Olive? Yes; you can tell the story afterwards, but you
and I are going to marry two of the world masters, and we're each of
us going to have a world master for father, and--well, I guess that's
about all there is in it. And now I'm going to seal the contract."
She bent her head and kissed Hardress's pale but still smiling lips,
and just at that moment there was a knock at the door. Lady Olive
almost involuntarily said, "Come in," and Doctor Lamson, who had, next
to Emil Fargeau, been the working genius of the whole vast scheme
which the dead savant had worked out in his laboratory at Strassburg,
came in.
Miss Chrysie, flushing and bright-eyed, straightened herself up,
looking most innocently guilty. Doctor Lamson looked at her for a
moment and then at Lady Olive. His own clear, deep-set grey eyes lit
up with a flash, and his clean-cut lips curved into a smile, as he
said:
"I hope I'm not intruding, as a much more distinguished person than
myself once said; but, as Hardress is so much better, having
apparently found a most potent, though unqualified, physician, I
thought you would like to hear the latest news from Europe. The Powers
have surrendered at discretion. As they can't fight, they are willing
to make peace. They have accepted King Edward as arbitrator, and he,
like the good sportsman that he is, has decided that in future, if a
country wants to fight another, it shall submit the _casus belli_
to a committee of the Powers not concerned in the quarrel. If they are
all concerned in it, the tribunal is to consist of the Pope, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Archimandrite of the Greek Church.
If either of the belligerents refuse arbitration after the dispute has
been thoroughly gone through, or begins fighting before the decision
is delivered, it will have the same experiences as Europe had in the
late war--which, of course, was no war."
"Because we stopped it," said Lady Olive, looking straight across the
room into Doctor Lamson's eyes.
"Well, yes, _we_," said Chrysie, standing up beside the bed. "I
reckon, all things considered, we four have had about as much to do
with stopping this war and teaching the nations to behave decently as
anybody else on earth. We are here on the throne of the world, kings
and queens from pole to pole!"
"But, my dear Chrysie," exclaimed Lady Olive, flushing from her
shapely chin to her temples, and making a move towards the door,
"surely you don't mean----"
"I don't mean any more than we all mean in our hearts," interrupted
Chrysie, taking Hardress's hand in hers. "What's the use of world
masters and world mistresses trying to hide things from each other? We
four people here in this room run the world. I want to run this man,
and you want to run that one; and they, of course, think they'll run
us, which they won't! Anyhow, we're all willing to try that, and I
think the best thing we can do is to sign, seal, and deliver the
contract of the offensive and defensive alliance right here and now.
You kiss, and we'll kiss, and that's all there is to it."
And they kissed.
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PAGE
Ada Vernham, 14
African Treasure, An, 10
All the Winners, 6, 19
All They Went Through, 14
Angel of Chance, The, 13
Anna Lombard, 11
Appearances, How to Keep Them Up, 23
Arcadians, The, 3, 12
As Caesar's Wife, 13
Australia at the Front, 21
Avenging of Ruthanna, The, 10
Barbara West, 13
Baton Sinister, The, 6, 13
Beautiful Rebel, A, 13, 28
Beneath the Veil, 4, 14
Bettina, 9
Bishop's Secret, The, 17, 27
Bitter Fruit, 9, 27
Blue Bonnets Up, 14
Boer in Peace and War, 24
Boer Ride, The, 26
Boffin's Find, 13
Bohemian Girls, The, 27
Bread of Tears, The, 12
Burden of Her Youth, The, 6, 16
By Jumna's Banks, 18
By Thames and Tiber, 3, 13
Cabinet Secret, A, 11, 27
Car of Phoebus, The, 4, 15
Castle Oriol, 16
Charming Miss Kyrle, The, 12
Cicely Vaughan, 15
Confessions of a Court Milliner, 16
Consumptive, Care of a, 7, 25
Corner in Ballybeg, A, 18
Court of Destiny, The, 13
Courtship of Sarah, The, 10
Craze of Christina, The, 9, 27
Crime in the Wood, The, 17
Crimson Cryptogram, The, 17, 27
Crimson Lilies, 2, 9
Crowning of Gloria, The, 15
Curios, 14, 27
Curse of Eden, The, 13
Dame of the Fine Green Kirtle, The, 19
Daughter of England, A, 9
Dead Certainties, 19
Demon of the Wind, The, 26
Desired Haven, The, 18
Diamond of Evil, The, 13
Didums, 18
Difficult Matter, A, 9, 18, 27
Diva, The, 13
Dramatic Criticism, 24
Dream of Fame, A, 18
Dwellers by the River, 13
Etiquette and Entertaining, 25
Experiment of Dr. Nevill, The, 15
Eye of Istar, The, 27
Father Anthony, 15, 18, 27
Fair Fraud, A, 9
Fair Rosalind, 14
Fighter in Khaki, A, 18
Fooling of Don Jaime, The, 16
For a God Dishonoured, 15
Forbidden Paths, 17
Frank Redland, Recruit, 10
Friendship and Folly, 14
From the Land of the Wombat, 17
Fugitive Anne, 2, 13
Future of Phyllis, The, 14
George and Son, 16
Girl with Feet of Clay, The, 15
Glimpses from Wonderland, 14
Golden Spur, The, 12
Golden Wang-Ho, The, 10
Green Turbans, The, 10
Happiness: Its Pursuit and Attainment, 23
Harvesters, The, 2
Heretic, The, 15
His Little Bill of Sale, 19
His Master Purpose, 5, 15
His 'Prentice Hand, 15
History of the Temple, 24
Hospital Secret, The, 16
House of Commons, The, 22
House of Hardale, The, 15
Houses of Ignorance, 11
I'd Crowns Resign, 10
Ill Wind, An, 9, 28
Indiscretion of Gladys, The, 5, 12
Infelix, 18
In Heaven's Porch, 24
In Summer Shade, 16
In the Blood, 11
In the Dark, 11
In the Days of Goldsmith, 5, 15
In the Shadow of the Purple, 13
Investigators, The, 12
Irish Holidays, 13
Island Interlude, An, 18
Italian Wife, His, 12
Ivory Bride, The, 14
Jade Eye, The, 4, 10
Jean Keir of Craigneil, 10
Juggler and the Soul, The, 19, 28
Juggling Fortune, 17
Kingdom of Mammon, The, 16
King's Race-Horses, The, 8, 22
Kinsah, 9
Kitty's Engagement, 27
Last Foray, The, 4, 16
Last of the Climbing Boys, 23
Letters to Dolly, 17
Life's Little Comedies, 26
Logan's Loyalty, 10
Lords of Life, The, 14
Love Affairs of a Curate, The, 17
Lovely Mrs. Pemberton, The, 11, 28
Love of a Former Life, The, 16
Luck of a Lowland Laddie, The, 9
Machinations of Janet, The, 4, 10
Magnetic Girl, The, 5, 14
Malice of Grace Wentworth, The, 14
Man of Iron, A, 16
Man of To-Day, A, 19, 27
Mary Bray, X Her Mark, 18
Master Sinner, The, 17
Men of Marlowe's, 14
Merciless Love, 15
Message of the Masters, The, 26
Midsummer Madness, 9
Mill of Silence, The, 13
Mission of Margaret, The, 14
Miss Nanse, 19
Miss Pauncefort's Peril, 14
Mistletoe Manor, 16
Mrs. Musgrave and Her Husband, 17, 27
Mystery of Dudley Horne, The, 27
Native Born, 11
Nightshade and Poppies, 26
Nobler than Revenge, 11
No. 3, The Square, 6, 11
No Vindication, 10
Once Too Often, 11
On Parole, 18
On the War Path, 21
Operatic Problem, The, 24
Oswald Steele, 6
Other Mrs. Jacobs, The, 6, 13
Our Widow, 27
Outsider's Year, An, 2, 11
Papa Limited, 18
Parish Doctor, The, 3, 13
Partners Three, 6, 9
Passing Fancy, A, 9, 27
Paths of the Dead, 18
Paul Le Maistre, 1
Paul the Optimist, 15
Pick-Me-Ups, 19
Plato's Hand-Maiden, 12
Progress of Pauline Kessler, The, 11, 27
Purple of the Orient, The, 12
Pursued by the Law, 10
Real Christian, The, 12
Realization of Justus Moran, 11
Remembrance, 5, 9
Robert Orange, 27
Royal Sisters, The, 13
Rural Life, 22
Scarlet Seal, The, 15
Sea of Love, The, 19
Second Lieutenant Celia, 19
Sent to Coventry, 11
Shadow of Allah, The, 14
Shutters of Silence, The, 3, 12
Side Lights on Convict Life, 7, 25
Silent House of Pimlico, The, 17, 27
Sin of Hagar, The, 16, 28
Sin of Jasper Standish, The, 27
Social Life in the British Army, 20
Social Pretender, A, 14
Something in the City, 11
Son of Mammon, A, 12
Sport of Circumstance, The, 17
Story of a Campaign Estate, 13
Story of Lois, The, 15
Straight Shoes, 13
Strength of Straw, The, 11
Sweet "Doll" of Haddon Hall, 5, 14
Thraldom, 4, 16
Three Days' Terror, The, 12, 27
Through the Mists, 15
Traitor in London, A, 10, 27
Transplanted, 18
Trewinnot of Guy's, 10, 18
Trust Trappers, The, 6, 16
Turnpike House, The, 10
Unconquerable Colony, The, 25
Unwise Virgin, An, 3, 10
Up To-morrow, 6, 18
Veiled Man, The, 27
Veronica Verdant, 12
Virgin Gold, 11
Ward of the King, A, 15
Way Out, The, 12
Weaver of Runes, A, 16
When Love is Kind, 16
When the Mopoke Calls, 17
Wicked Rosamond, 12
Wilful Woman, A, 12
Wise in His Generation, 15
With Bought Swords, 19
Woman-Derelict, A, 9
Woman in the City, A, 5, 15
Woman's Checkmate, A, 14
Woman's No, A, 9
Woman--the Sphinx, 10, 28
Women Must Weep, 10
Wooing of Monica, The, 7
World Masters, The, 3, 15
Wounded Pride, 16
Yolande the Parisienne, 12
Youth at the Prow, 19
Zealandia's Guerdon, 11
Index of Names of Authors
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Amity, John, 18
Armstrong, Mrs. L. Heaton, 25
Bayliss, Helen, 5, 15
Beaman, Emeric Hulme, 15
Bedwell, Hugh, 26
Berkley, Eibbon, 16
Bindloss, Harold, 5, 15
Bodkin, M. McD., K.C., 5, 15
Boothby, Guy, 11, 27
Buchanan, Robert, 15, 18, 27
Burgin, G. B., 3, 12
Burrard, W. Dutton, 16
Cairnes, Capt. W. E., 20
Cameron, Mrs. Lovett, 5, 7, 9, 18, 27, 28
Capes, Bernard, 13
Carrel, Frederic, 11, 27
Chatterton, G. G., 13, 17
Cleeve, Lucas, 5, 12
Clement, Hugh, 24
Cobban, J. MacLaren, 10
Cocbrane, James Henry, 25
Compton, James, 16
Cook, Alec, 3, 13
Cooper, Edward H., 16
Crommelin, May, 2, 9
Cross, Victoria, 11
Culley, J. D. Leather-, Mrs., 21
Davenant, Philip, 15
Davidson, Campbell L., 19
Delaire, Jean, 18
Dill, Bessie, 14
Dodge, Walter Phelps, 19
Donovan, Dick, 15
Dothie, W. P., 15
Doyle, Mina, 18
Dudeney, Mrs. Henry, 14
Duntze, Lady, 18
Elson, George, 23
Esler, E. Rentoul, 19
Fletcher, J. S., 3, 12, 27
Forster, R. H., 4, 16
Fowler, Harry, 19
Galloway, William Johnson, 24
Garnett, William Terrel 16
Gearey, Caroline, 22
Gilbert, George, 6, 13
Gowing, Mrs. Aylmer, 3, 13
Glanville, Ernest, 13, 28
Graham, Winifred, 14
Grein, J. T., 24
Griffith, George, 3, 7, 15, 25
Groot, J. Morgan de, 16
Gubbins, Nathaniel, 6, 19
Halcombe, C. J. H., 16
Hannan, Charles, 16
Heppenstall, R. H., 14
Hinkson, H. A., 16
Hobbes, John Oliver, 27
Howard, Isabel, 16
Howard, Keble, 17
Hume, Fergus, 4, 7, 10, 17, 27, 28
Ingold, John, 14
Jackson, G. Hunt, 26
Kelly, W. J., The Revd., 23
Kernahan, Mrs. Coulson, 3, 10
Lees, Robert James, 4, 15
Lewis, G. Pitt, K.C., 24
Lewis, Helen Prothero, 4, 16
MacLeod, Torquil, 19
Macpherson, Jean, 18
MacQuoid, Katherine S., 15
Mann, Mary E., 16
Markham, Paul, 18
Marsh, Richard, 5, 14, 17, 27
Martin, Mrs. Charles, 14
Mathers, Helen, 7, 16, 19, 27, 28
Mathew, Frank, 13
Meade, L. T., 6, 16, 27
Moore, Dugald, 26
Muddock, J. E., 5, 14
Murphy, Nicholas P., 18
Nisbet, Hume, 6, 16, 18
O'Donnell, F. Hugh, 26
Perkins, Rose, 15
Phelps, Sydney, 15
Pinkerton, Thomas, 14
Platts, W. Carter, 6, 18
Pool, Maria Louise, 14
Praed, Mrs. Campbell, 2, 6, 13
Praga, Mrs. Alfred, 23
Queux, William Le, 27
Reardon, Richard, 15
Reay, Marcus, 17
Rita, 27
Roberts, Morley, 14
Robinson, F. W., 14
Rodd, Ralph, 18
Sandeman, Mina, 12
Sergeant, Adeline, 4, 14
Short, Frank, 26
Snowden, Keighley, 13
Speight, T. W., 17
Spencer, Edward, 8, 22
Stuart, Esme, 11
Tayler, Jenner, 18
Temple, Sir Richard, Bart., 22
Thomas, Annie (Mrs. Pender Cudlip), 13
Thynne, Robert, 13
Turner, Edgar, 15
Tweedale, Violet, 16
Tytler, Sarah, 4, 10, 19
Walker, William S. ("Coo-ee"), 11, 17
Warden, Florence, 2, 6, 7, 11, 27, 28
Whishaw, Fred, 6, 11
Wilkinson, Frank, 21
Williams, Mrs. M. Forrest, 7, 25
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