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Jim Nyland, an artist with a touch of Irish in his blood, becomes an amateur adventurer among professional spies who, in the style of the Hitchcockian protagonist, treat the danger in which he finds himself as nothing more than fun.
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Contents
PREFACE. CHILDREN OF THE STAR
CHAPTER I. THE WONDER-BOX
CHAPTER II. BROOKHOLLOW
CHAPTER III. IN EMBRYO
CHAPTER IV. THE TRODDEN WAY
CHAPTER V. EX MACHINA
CHAPTER VI. THE END OF SOLITUDE
CHAPTER VII. OBSESSION
CHAPTER VIII. A CHANGE IMPENDS
CHAPTER IX. NONRESISTANCE
CHAPTER X. DRIVING HEAD-ON
CHAPTER XI. THE BREAKERS
CHAPTER XII. A LIFE LINE
CHAPTER XIII. LETTERS FROM A LITTLE GIRL
CHAPTER XIV. A JOURNEY BEGINS
CHAPTER XV. THE LOCKED HOUSE
CHAPTER XVI. SCHEHERAZADE
CHAPTER XVII. A WHITE SKIRT
CHAPTER XVIII. BY RADIO
CHAPTER XIX. THE CAPTAIN OF THE VOLHYNIA
CHAPTER XX. THE DROP OF IRISH
CHAPTER XXI. METHOD AND FORESIGHT
CHAPTER XXII. TWO THIRTEEN
CHAPTER XXIII. ON HIS WAY
CHAPTER XXIV. THE ROAD TO PARIS
CHAPTER XXV. CUP AND LIP
CHAPTER XXVI. RUE SOLEIL D’OR
CHAPTER XXVII. FROM FOUR TO FIVE
CHAPTER XXVIII. TOGETHER
CHAPTER XXIX. EN FAMILLE
CHAPTER XXX. JARDIN RUSSE
CHAPTER XXXI. THE CAFÉ DES BULGARS
CHAPTER XXXII. THE CERCLE EXTRANATIONALE
CHAPTER XXXIII. A RAT HUNT
CHAPTER XXXIV. SUNRISE
CHAPTER XXXV. THE FIRST DAY
PREFACE
CHILDREN OF THE STAR
Not the dark companion of Sirius, brightest of all stars–not our own chill and spectral planet rushing toward Vega in the constellation of Lyra–presided at the birth of millions born to corroborate a bloody horoscope.
But a Dark Star, speeding unseen through space, known to the ancients, by them called Erlik, after the Prince of Darkness, ruled at the birth of those myriad souls destined to be engulfed in the earthquake of the ages, or flung by it out of the ordered pathway of their lives into strange byways, stranger highways–into deeps and deserts never dreamed of.
Also one of the dozen odd temporary stars on record blazed up on that day, flared for a month or two, dwindled to a cinder, and went out.
But the Dark Star Erlik, terribly immortal, sped on through space to complete a two-hundred-thousand-year circuit of the heavens, and begin anew an immemorial journey by the will of the Most High.
What spectroscope is to horoscope, destiny is to chance. The black star Erlik rushed through interstellar darkness unseen; those born under its violent augury squalled in their cradles, or, thumb in mouth, slumbered the dreamless slumber of the newly born. xix
One of these, a tiny girl baby, fussed and fidgeted in her mother’s arms, tortured by prickly heat when the hot winds blew through Trebizond.
Overhead vultures circled; a stein-adler, cleaving the blue, looked down where the surf made a thin white line along the coast, then set his lofty course for China.
Thousands of miles to the westward, a little boy of eight gazed out across the ruffled waters of the mill pond at Neeland’s Mills, and wondered whether the ocean might not look that way.
And, wondering, with the salt sea effervescence working in his inland-born body, he fitted a cork to his fishing line and flung the baited hook far out across the ripples. Then he seated himself on the parapet of the stone bridge and waited for monsters of the deep to come.
And again, off Seraglio Point, men were rowing in a boat; and a corded sack lay in the stern, horridly and limply heavy.
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