BY
GEORGE GRIFFITH
AUTHOR OF
"The Angel of the Revolution," "Brothers of the Chain,"
"The Justice of Revenge," "A Honeymoon in Space,"
"Captain Johnnie," etc. etc.
London
John Long
13 and 14 Norris Street, Haymarket
1903
[All Rights Reserved]
THE WORLD MASTERS
PROLOGUE
THE MOMENT OF TRIUMPH
High above the night-shrouded street, whose silence was only broken by the occasional tramp of the military patrol or the gruff challenges of the sentries on the fortifications, a man was walking, with jerky, uneven strides, up and down a vast attic in an ancient house overlooking the old Fisher's Gate, close by where the River Ill leaves the famous city of Strassburg.