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Title: The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
Author: Ethel M. Dell
Release Date: September 4, 2005 [EBook #16651]
Language: English
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"You may take them to the devil!" Merryon said.
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THE
SAFETY CURTAIN
AND OTHER STORIES
by
ETHEL M. DELL
AUTHOR OF:-
The Hundreth Chance
Greatheart
The Lamp in the Desert
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Safety Curtain and other stories by Ethel M. Dell.
"You may take them to the devil!" Merryon said.
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The Tidal Wave
The Top of the World
The Obstacle Race
The Way of an Eagle
The Knave of Diamonds
The Rocks of Valpr\u00e9
The Swindler
The Keeper of the Door
Bars of Iron
Rosa Mundi
Etc.
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America
This edition is issued under arrangement with the publishers
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London
Made in the United States of America
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
CONTENTS
The Safety Curtain
The Experiment
Those Who Wait
The Eleventh Hour
The Place of Honour
ethel m. dell's novels
The Safety Curtain
CHAPTER I
THE ESCAPE
A great shout of applause went through the crowded hall as the Dragon-Fly Dance came to an end, and the
Dragon-Fly, with quivering, iridescent wings, flashed away.
It was the third encore. The dance was a marvellous one, a piece of dazzling intricacy, of swift and
unexpected subtleties, of almost superhuman grace. It must have proved utterly exhausting to any ordinary
being; but to that creature of fire and magic it was no more than a glittering fantasy, a whirl too swift for the
eye to follow or the brain to grasp.
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