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TALKING-TALBOT-Chapter-04

by webnovelverse — One day not long before they expected to reach Havre, Talbot was taking his customary look at the horses when Harry Furness came to him and said: "May I speak with you, Mr. Talbot?" "Certainly." "I want to explain why I went out in the boat with you." "The truth, Harry ?" Harry flushed. "Yes, sir. The fact that I didn't try to deceive you when you asked me ought to show that I'm not a liar." "I don't think you're a liar; but on the other hand it would have been hard, on the spur of the…
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TALKING-TALBOT-Chapter-05

by webnovelverse — Talbot walked slowly away from the house. He didn't doubt that he had been wise to refuse to be drawn into the scheme, whatever it was. It might be that the plotters would have been able to help him; they certainly had hindered him, but his judgment told him that he had acted wisely. The question now was, whether to go on without further thought of them, or to try to figure out first what the extent of their power was, and so be in a position to elude it. There was young Hopkins at the embassy ;…
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Alias-the-Blackbird-Chapter-12

by webnovelverse — NO MAN dared to go into the old mine shaft. At times they shouted to the Blackbird, and he replied with sullen snarls. With the setting of the moon, they crept closer to the old mine shaft. Someone lighted a dead pine branch and, when it was burning steadily, flung it around a corner into the entrance. For an instant there was the gleam of swiftly retreating eyes. In the fetid air the torch was smothered out. When the night was at its blackest, Cedar Rudd crawled up to the dismal door. He had…
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TALKING-TALBOT-Chapter-03

by webnovelverse — Talbot was not so silly as to be a woman hater. He had had a bitter experience once, however, and since then had had no desire to know any woman intimately. He was sorry that this beautiful young woman had been placed where common decency would compel him to be polite to her for maybe ten days, unless — and he smiled grimly — they had bad weather and she was kept in her stateroom. She certainly was exceedingly beautiful; and it was immediately evident that the other men on board were ready to…
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TALKING-TALBOT-Chapter-02

by webnovelverse — The trainload of horses had been delivered and paid for, and Chester Talbot was preparing to return to his ranch, anxious to be on his way. He had remained in Hoboken all the time; hadn't crossed the river to the big city. If there was any bitterness in his feeling for his old home, it didn't show in his conduct. He had stood on the end of the wharf, while the horses were being loaded on the steamer, studying the wonderful sky line across the river with interest and admiration. He had not wavered for…
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TALKING-TALBOT-Chapter-01

by webnovelverse — Oh, how cruel! Make him stop! Somebody make him stop!" A lot of several hundred horses was being loaded on a train at a siding in Texas, destined for the British troops in France. It was a scene of excitement, noise, and bustle; frightened horses plunging, biting, kicking, squealing; men shouting and swearing. A party of men and women, betrayed by their dress as strangers, were sitting their horses, grouped together, watching the proceedings with a lively interest. The horses were all broken, but…
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TALKING TALBOT

by Anonymous — Chester “Talking Talbot”—Montana deadeye rancher turned WWI horse trader—sails to France on a sabotaged steamer. Time bomb defused. Parisian authorities mysteriously blocked. Countess Elsa’s honey trap reveals Hungarian revolution plot: smuggle her as “fake wife” for Budapest access.

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Alias-the-Blackbird-Chapter-11

by webnovelverse — VOICES came from the forested slopes, booming across the night. Here, there, on every side of the narrow glade men shouted, answering one another. "Hi, Cedar! Hi, Cedar! Which way'd he go?" Electric torches began to flash. A posse of twenty or more police officers, after beating for hours through the forest in a tightening circle, had converged on the Blackbird, had hemmed him in at last. From the far end of the glade into which he had disappeared, swift as a wolf on the track of the Blackbird,…
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Alias-the-Blackbird-Chapter-10

by webnovelverse — THE BLACKBIRD rushed him at the door. He reeled, and caught up a chair, swinging it above his head. It crashed in full flight against the lintel, the Blackbird cowering and ducking aside, deftly. "Come on! Come on!" shouted Hammer. "I'm here! You see me! Come on and fight it like a man!" The Blackbird had disappeared around a corner of the doorway, quick and sly. Hammer picked up a pine bench, facing the entrance savagely. He lurched a step forward. There was no pain in his shoulder now. All his…
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Alias-the-Blackbird-Chapter-09

by webnovelverse — FACE down on moist earth Hammer lay. He heard the Blackbird swinging over in that tight circle, wings 45° to the pond surface, riding the inside rim of an invisible air cone. The quiet engine droned with the steadiness of a bumblebee and scarcely louder, never varying its soporific note. It was buzz-btizz-buzz—then br-rup! as the black plane came around in its orbit, and buzz-buzz again, circling away. Hammer lay quiet under the withered, crispy leaves of an oak scrub, between a cleft formed by two…
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