A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with George H. Doran Company
Printed in U. S. A.

COPYRIGHT, 1926,
BY A. CONAN DOYLE
THE LAND OF MIST
—Q—
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE
REVEREND GEORGE VALE OWEN
AS A TOKEN OF
SYMPATHY, ADMIRATION, AND FRIENDSHIP

JANUARY, 1926

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[I][In Which Our Special Commissioners Make a Start][11]
[II][Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company][21]
[III][In Which Professor Challenger Gives His Opinion][40]
[IV][Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith][46]
[V][Where Our Commissioners Have a Remarkable Experience][77]
[VI][In Which the Reader Is Shown the Habits of a Notorious Criminal][98]
[VII][In Which the Notorious Criminal Gets What the British Law Considers to Be His Deserts][116]
[VIII][In Which Three Investigators Come upon a Dark Soul][131]
[IX][Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena][155]
[X][De Profundis][166]
[XI][Where Silas Linden Comes into His Own][184]
[XII][There Are Heights and There Are Depths][198]
[XIII][In Which Professor Challenger Goes Forth to Battle][212]
[XIV][In Which Challenger Meets a Strange Colleague][230]
[XV][In Which Traps Are Laid for a Great Quarry][243]
[XVI][In Which Challenger Has the Experience of His Lifetime][257]
[XVII][Where the Mists Clear Away][274]
[Appendix][280]

THE LAND OF MIST

CHAPTER I
IN WHICH OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS MAKE A START

THE great Professor Challenger has been—very improperly and imperfectly—used in fiction. A daring author placed him in impossible and romantic situations in order to see how he would react to them. He reacted to the extent of a libel action, an abortive appeal for suppression, a riot in Sloane Street, two personal assaults, and the loss of his position as lecturer upon Physiology at the London School of Sub-Tropical Hygiene. Otherwise, the matter passed more peaceably than might have been expected.