Phoenix Publishing Co. Ltd.-Scherz & Hallwag

BOOK ONE THEY SET OUT chapter one James Brown, of Victoria "YOU'D BETTER 'URRY UP!" called his mother, at the head of the stairs. "Righto!" shouted back Jim, bent over the kitchen sink. He rinsed his head and neck, washed the lather off his chest, dipped his face again, spluttered, raised his...

1 SOUVENIR EVERY time I pass, along the "West Side Highway, a spot just above Forty-Sixth Street, there comes over me the feeling that I experience at the dentist's as I wait for him to get through putting the little drill in his machine, the sorrow of saying good-by, and the sadness of a band...

CHAPTER I A TANK, filled to the brim with golden vapour, smooth, yet with a roughness like honey in it: a roughness perceptible to the eye, yet intangible: a bloom, that resolved itself here and there into soft, umbrian shade. A golden element, peopled with translucent beings that derived...