: The grandfathers' war by Leinster Murray Van Dongen H R Illustrator - Science fiction; War stories; Physicians Fiction; Conflict of generations Fiction; Space colonies Fiction; Space medicine Fiction

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CHAPTER

I THE OLYMPIC GAMES 11

II AN ANTHEM INTERVENES 18

V HILLYARD'S MESSENGER 47

VI THE HONORARY MEMBER 55

X THE SUMMONS 91

XX LADY SPLAY'S PREOCCUPATIONS 193

XXX A REVOLUTION IN SIR CHICHESTER 287

THE SUMMONS

THE OLYMPIC GAMES

"Luttrell! Luttrell!"

Sir Charles Hardiman stood in the corridor of his steam yacht and bawled the name through a closed door. But no answer was returned from the other side of the door. He turned the handle and went in. The night was falling, but the cabin windows looked towards the north and the room was full of light and of a low and pleasant music. For the tide tinkled and chattered against the ship's planks and, in the gardens of the town across the harbour, bands were playing. The town was Stockholm in the year nineteen hundred and twelve, and on this afternoon, the Olympic games, that unfortunate effort to promote goodwill amongst the nations, which did little but increase rancours and disclose hatreds, had ended, never, it is to be hoped, to be resumed.

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