Charles Neville Buck
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English
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Excerpt: "Between precipices echoed the crash of ice sliding loose and splintering as it fell in ponderous masses. Men sweating in the glare of collossal bonfires toiled at the work of re-inforcing the dam. They had been faithful, they were still faithful, but the stress of exhaustion was beginning to sap their morale, to drive them into irritability so that, under the strain of almost superhuman exertion, they threatened to break. Brent was not of...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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"The Portal of Dreams" by Charles Neville Buck. The famous author of "The Call of the Cumberlands" has never written a better yarn than this, in which he takes you from the fashion of Fifth Avenue to the glamour of the South Seas. One moment the ice is clinking in your highball glass in the Waldorf and the next you're fighting a horde of savages with the wind sighing through the coconut palms, and the South Seas breaking on a coral reef. Today you're...