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JOHN SOLOMON PREPARES FOR ACTION "Solomon, I wish you'd tell me about that Schlak business, just to get it off my mind." "Yes, sir; just a moment. Miss 'Elmuth, can you bri…
UNDER SUSPICION Irritated almost beyond control by Solomon's exasperating method of playing his hand in the dark, Hammer passed a very bad night. More than once he was on the point of sending …
ACCUSED AND ACCUSER It was perhaps unfortunate that District Commissioner Smith had very recently been transferred from Nairobi for his sins, inasmuch as he knew not the gods of Melindi and cared no…
OFF AT LAST "Dang it, but it be a mortal 'ot day!" Solomon, with his mild observation, paused to mop his brow with a flaming red handkerchief. Instantly offended, Smith snapped out a…
DR. KRAUSZ PROVES OBSTINATE Hammer was by no means certain as to the attitude of Dr. Sigurd Krausz, and he was very certain indeed as to the attitude of the British East African officials. He knew t…
THE PLACE OF SKULLS Cyrus Hammer, as he was forced along beside Jenson, was aware that the crisis had come in the twinkling of an eye and that he had proven wanting. Sara Helmuth had met it in his p…
THE PIT OF ADDERS Hammer could not understand himself. He was practically free, he realized fully that this was the time to act, when Krausz was unarmed, and yet his brain was dulled and refused to …
"THAHABU!" "I did, miss." Who did what? Dull mutters and echoings pierced into Hammer's brain, as if voices that he used to know were whispering in the distance. They swell…
THE "DAPHNE" AGAIN "Er—'pon my word, Mr. Hammer, I'm—er—glad to be able to apologize!" "Nonsense, commissioner! Then it's all right with Nairobi?" &quo…
