A Bid for Fortune; Or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta

von Guy Boothby

118 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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is a novel publishedin1895. YoungAustralianRichardHatteras,freshfrompearl diving riches, travels to Sydney where he falls for the Colonial Secretary's daughter. ButherfatherhascrossedpathswiththesinisterDr. Nikola,who demandsamysterious oriental object through deviousschemes. AsNikola's plot threatens the woman he loves, Hatteras must race to rescue her from danger the Pescadore, if she was slow, was certainly sure, and so the thirty-sixth day after our departure from PortSaid,asrecordedinthepreviouschap ter, she landed us safe and sound at Williamstown, which, as all the Aus tralian world knows, is one of the principal railway termini, and within an hour's journey of Melbourne. Throughout the voyage nothing occurred worth chronicling, if I except the curious behaviour of Lord Beckenham, who, for the first week or so, seemed sunk in a deep lethargy, from which neither chaff nor sympathy could rouse him. From morning till night he moonedaimlesslyaboutthedecks,hadvisiblytopullhimselftogethertoan swer such questions as might be addressed to him, and never by any chance sustained a conversation beyond a few odd sentences. To such a pitch did this depression at last bring him that, the day after we left Aden, I felt it my duty to take him to task and to try to bully or coax him out of it "Come," I said, "I want to know what's the matter with you. You've been giving us all the miserables lately, and from the look of your face at the present moment I'm inclined to believe it's going to continue. Out with it! Are you homesick, or has the monotony of this voyage been too much for you?" He looked into my face rather anxiously, I thought, and then said: "Mr. Hatteras, I'm afraid you'll think me an awful idiot when I do tell you, but thetruth is I'vegotDr. Nikola'sfaceonmybrain,anddowhatIwillIcannot rid myself of it. Those great, searching eyes, as we saw them in that terrible room, have got on my nerves, and I can think of nothing else. They haunt me night and day!"

• Themen: Belletristik Biografischer Roman / Autobiografischer Roman
• ISBN: 9798182777728
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Freeman