The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure. Arthur Conan Doyle

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      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       TALES OF ADVENTURE

       I

       THE DÉBUT OF BIMBASHI JOYCE

       II

       THE SURGEON OF GASTER FELL

       I: HOW THE WOMAN CAME TO KIRKBY-MALHOUSE

       II: HOW I WENT FORTH TO GASTER FELL

       III: OF THE GREY COTTAGE IN THE GLEN

       IV: OF THE MAN WHO CAME IN THE NIGHT

       III

       BORROWED SCENES

       IV

       THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL

       V

       THE GREAT BROWN-PERICORD MOTOR

       VI

       THE SEALED ROOM

       TALES OF MEDICAL LIFE

       VII

       A PHYSIOLOGIST'S WIFE

       VIII

       BEHIND THE TIMES

       IX

       HIS FIRST OPERATION

       X

       THE THIRD GENERATION

       XI

       THE CURSE OF EVE

       XII

       A MEDICAL DOCUMENT

       XIII

       THE SURGEON TALKS

       XIV

       THE DOCTORS OF HOYLAND

       XV

       CRABBE'S PRACTICE

       THE END

TALES OF ADVENTURE

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I

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THE DÉBUT OF BIMBASHI JOYCE

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      It was in the days when the tide of Mahdism, which had swept in such a flood from the great Lakes and Darfur to the confines of Egypt, had at last come to its full, and even begun, as some hoped, to show signs of a turn. At its outset it had been terrible. It had engulfed Hicks's army, swept over Gordon and Khartoum, rolled behind the British forces as they retired down the river, and finally cast up a spray of raiding parties as far north as Assouan. Then it found other channels to east and to west, to Central Africa and to Abyssinia, and retired a little on the side of Egypt. For ten years there ensued a lull, during which the frontier garrisons looked out upon those distant blue hills of Dongola. Behind the violet mists which draped them, lay a land of blood and horror. From time to time some adventurer went south towards those haze-girt mountains, tempted by stories of gum and ivory, but none ever returned. Once a mutilated Egyptian and once a Greek woman, mad with thirst and fear, made their way to the lines. They were the only exports of that country of darkness. Sometimes the sunset СКАЧАТЬ