A. CONAN DOYLE

WITH THIRTY-TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY S. PAGET

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1898

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TO MY FRIEND JAMES PAYN IN TOKEN OF MY AFFECTION AND ESTEEM


CONTENTS


[ PREFACE ]

[ ILLUSTRATIONS ]

[ A DESERT DRAMA ]


[ CHAPTER I ]

[ CHAPTER II ]

[ CHAPTER III ]

[ CHAPTER IV ]

[ CHAPTER V ]

[ CHAPTER VI ]

[ CHAPTER VII ]

[ CHAPTER VIII ]

[ CHAPTER IX ]

[ CHAPTER X ]



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Illustrations


[ Frontispiece P78 ]

[ Titlepage ]

[ So You Will Carve Your Names Also P26 ]

[ The Soudanese Escort Filed Along P54 ]

[ He Pointed up With his Donkey-whip P66 ]

[ A Silence Fell Upon the Little Company P72 ]

[ Long String of Red-turbaned Riders, Frontispiece P78 ]

[ You Do No Good by Exposing Yourself P86 ]

[ He Struck at the Snarling Savages P 94 ]

[ Fell Suddenly Upon his Face P97 ]

[ The Party Streamed Into Sight Again P103 ]

[ Don't Miss Your Grip of It P111 ]

[ Looking for Some Landmark P124 ]

[ He Rolled over on to his Side P130 ]

[ Norah, Darling, Keep Your Heart up P135 ]

[ They Haven't Hurt You, Norah, Have They P139 ]

[ Hour of Arab Prayer P142 ]

[ The Old Soldier Fell Forward Gasping P145 ]

[ Certain That I Would Not Leave You Here P152 ]

[ The Creature, Stood Still P171 ]

[ The Great Caravan Route P 174 ]

[ Sword in his Hand P184 ]

[ Grimy Bodies Lay Senseless Under the Palm-trees P188 ]

[ Took a Large, Shining Date out of the Moolah's Beard P210 ]

[ Stand Up! Cried Mansoor P214 ]

[ Don't Fret, John! Cried his Wife P217 ]

[ The Colonel Was the Winner of This Terrible Lottery P222 ]

[ Good-bye, Little Sadie P229 ]

[ On This Pinnacle Stood a Motionless Figure P242 ]

[ The Colonel Leaned Forward With his Pistol P247 ]

[ You Haven't Got Such a Thing As A Cigar P253 ]

[ Not a Word! Not A Word! P255 ]

[ Arabs Were Caught Between Two Fires P261 ]

[ He Delivered Them from Their Distress P273 ]


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