By: Irene Clyde

“Whom have you got killed there?”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“It is the game that amuses me…”

By: Charlotte Haldane

“This funny little female defies us both.”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

The girl’s eyes swept him approvingly.

By: Irene Clyde

“The messenger got hold of the wrong ring, somehow…”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The Shining One makes no bargains.”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The sentinels of the Shining One are faithful to their duty.”

By: Irene Clyde

“A being who was, for all I could tell, a phantom of the brain…”

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“The building’s ground-plan bore a fanciful resemblance to the shape of a flat-iron.”

By: Irene Clyde

The thief drew a heavy sword, and aimed a blow at the other…

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“A woman cannot be moved about like a piece of furniture.”

By: Irene Clyde

I had never learnt the art of fencing, but I was not unfamiliar with the feel of a sword.

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

Men had tamed the lightning and bade it speak their will.

By: Rudyard Kipling

‘What does all this lunacy of ours prove?’

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“You are not of the children of the Doomsmen.”