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The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) |
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A. CONAN DOYLE
By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Novels and Stories DANGER! And Other Stories
THE DOINGS OF RAFFLES HAW
HIS LAST BOW
Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
THE BLACK DOCTOR
And Other Tales of Terror and Mystery
THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL
And Other Tales of Adventure
THE CROXLEY MASTER
And Other Tales of the Ring and Camp
THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT
And Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS
And Other Tales of Long Ago
THE DEALINGS OF CAPTAIN SHARKEY
And Other Tales of Pirates On the Life Hereafter THE NEW REVELATION
THE VITAL MESSAGE
THE COMING OF THE FAIRIES
THE CASE FOR SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY
THE WANDERINGS OF A SPIRITUALIST
OUR AMERICAN ADVENTURE A History of the Great War THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS Six Vols. Poems THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
THE LAST
OF THE LEGIONS
and Other Tales of Long Ago
BY
A. CONAN DOYLE
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911,
1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1922
BY A. CONAN DOYLE COPYRIGHT, 1910,
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1911,
BY ASSOCIATED SUNDAY MAGAZINES, INC. COPYRIGHT, 1908,
BY THE MCCLURE COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1900, 1902,
BY THE S. S. MCCLURE COMPANY
[Device] THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS AND OTHER TALES
OF LONG AGO Q PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect
spellings remain as printed. The oe ligature is represented by [oe].
CONTENTS
PAGE I THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS 9 II THE LAST GALLEY 22 III THROUGH THE VEIL 37 IV THE COMING OF THE HUNS 47 V THE CONTEST 68 VI THE FIRST CARGO 83 VII AN ICONOCLAST 98 VIII GIANT MAXIMIN 112 IX THE RED STAR 141 X THE SILVER MIRROR 158 XI THE HOME COMING 177 XII A POINT OF CONTACT 202 XIII THE CENTURION 215
THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS
THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS
and Other Tales of Long Ago
I THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS
Pontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial villa by
the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which
he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it,
a swarthy little Italian, whose black eyes were glazed with want of
sleep, and his olive features darker still from dust and sweat. The
viceroy was looking fixedly at him, yet he saw him not, so full was his
mind of this sudden and most unexpected order. To him it seemed as if
the solid earth had given way beneath his feet. His life and the work of
his life had come to irremediable ruin. "Very good," he said at last in a hard dry voice, "you can go." The man saluted and staggered out of the hall. A yellow haired British
major domo came forward for orders. "Is the General there?" "He is waiting, your excellency." "Then show him in, and leave us together." A few minutes later Licinius Crassus, the head of the British military
establishment, had joined his chief. He was a large, bearded man in a
white civilian toga, hemmed with the Patrician purple. His rough, bold
features, burned and seamed and lined with the long African wars, were
shadowed with anxiety as he looked with questioning eyes at the drawn,
haggard face of the viceroy. "I fear, your excellency, that you have had bad news from Rome... Continue reading book >>
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