: The Prelude to Adventure by Walpole Hugh - Murderers Fiction; Murder Fiction; College students Fiction

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I THE MAN ON THE ROAN HORSE 7

II A CHANCE SHOT 24

V THE MYSTERY OF ROZSNYO 60

VI ZARKA PLAYS TERRORIST 67

X WHO IS THIS MAN? 105

XX A LIGHT IN THE FOREST 212

THE MAN ON THE ROAN HORSE

"The plan I have in my mind," said Gersdorff, the Minister, "is so full of delicacy and danger that I hesitate to propose it to you."

The Minister made a deprecating gesture.

"I have no fear on that score, so far as you are concerned, my dear Herr Galabin. In fact you are the only man in the Bureau whom I would trust to undertake the affair. The only question is," he continued, as Galabin bowed in acknowledgment of the compliment, "whether I have any right to risk a valuable life in an undertaking where the very courage which points you out as the right man for the business is likely to minimize the dangers, dangers which I cannot disguise from myself may be very great."

"Nevertheless, I am impatient to hear your Excellency's plan."

The Minister leaned back in his chair thoughtfully stroking his mouth with his long white fingers. "Shortly, it is this," he said. "The mystery surrounding the extraordinary disappearance of Prince Roel of Rapsberg deepens every day. I say deepens, because, as you know, the agents of our Bureau, all the machinery which we have set working to elucidate it, have given us absolutely blank results. Had it been a mere piece of eccentricity on the Prince's part, the result, as has been hinted, of disappointment in a love affair, we must have found him, or at least some clue to the direction in which he had disappeared. A man, let alone a prince, cannot vanish from the face of the earth without leaving some trace."

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