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The Land Of Mist

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1926)


1. In Which Our Special Commissioners Make A Start
2. Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company
3. In Which Professor Challenger Gives His Opinion
4. Which Describes Some Strange Doings In Hammersmith
5. Where Our Commissioners Have A Remarkable Experience
6. In Which The Reader Is Shown The Habits Of A Notorious Criminal
7. In Which The Notorious Criminal Gets What The British Law
Considers To Be His Deserts
8. In Which Three Investigators Come Across A Dark Soul
9. Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena
10. De Profundis
11. Where Silas Linden Comes Into His Own
12. There Are Heights And There Are Depths
13. In Which Professor Challenger Goes Forth To Battle
14. In Which Challenger Meets A Strange Colleague
15. In Which Traps Are Laid For A Great Quarry
16. In Which Challenger Has The Experience Of His Life
17. Where The Mists Clear Away
Appendices



1. In Which Our Special Commissioners Make A Start

THE great Professor Challenger has been -- very improperly and
imperfectly -- used in fiction. A daring author placed him in
impossible and romantic situations in order to see how he would react
to them. He reacted to the extent of a libel action, an abortive
appeal for suppression, a riot in Sloane Street, two personal
assaults, and the loss of his position as lecturer upon Physiology at
the London School of Sub-Tropical Hygiene. Otherwise, the matter
passed more peaceably than might have been expected.

But he was losing something of his fire. Those huge shoulders were a
little bowed. The spade-shaped Assyrian beard showed tangles of grey
amid the black, his eyes were a trifle less aggressive, his smile less
self-complacent, his voice as monstrous as ever but less ready to roar
down all opposition. Yet he was dangerous, as all around him were
painfully aware. The volcano was not extinct, and constant rumblings
threatened some new explosion. Life had much yet to teach him, but he
was a little less intolerant in learning.

There was a definite date for the change which had been wrought in
him. It was the death of his wife. That little bird of a woman had
made her nest in the big man's heart. He had all the tenderness and