"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 193 - The Invincible Shiwan Khan" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

THE INVINCIBLE SHIWAN KHAN
Maxwell Grant
This page copyright ┬й 2001 Blackmask Online.

http://www.blackmask.com

? CHAPTER I. SPELL OF THE PAST
? CHAPTER II. DEATH'S CHOICE
? CHAPTER III. THE MASTER SPEAKS
? CHAPTER IV. THREADS TO CRIME
? CHAPTER V. FROM SIX TO SEVEN
? CHAPTER VI. THE BRONZE KNIFE
? CHAPTER VII. THE SECOND SUICIDE
? CHAPTER VIII. QUEST OF MISSING MEN
? CHAPTER IX. THE LONE TRAIL
? CHAPTER X. PATH OF DARKNESS
? CHAPTER XI. THE DOUBLE THRUST
? CHAPTER XII. TWISTED BATTLE
? CHAPTER XIII. WITHIN THE LAIR
? CHAPTER XIV. THE DOUBLE TRAIL
? CHAPTER XV. ONE MAN'S PRICE
? CHAPTER XVI. WORD FROM BELOW
? CHAPTER XVII. THE GREAT DRAGON
? CHAPTER XVIII. WITHIN THE THRONE ROOM
? CHAPTER XIX. THE WAY OF SHIWAN KHAN
? CHAPTER XX. SHIWAN KHAN ESCAPES
? CHAPTER XXI. THE HAND FROM THE PAST
? CHAPTER XXII. THE HOST DIVIDED

CHAPTER I. SPELL OF THE PAST
STRANGE was the golden room, singular the hush that lay within its squarish walls. Windowless, it
formed a metallic cubicle pervaded by a rich, yet dullish, gleam.

Golden, too, was the attire of the room's lone occupant. He was robed in the richly woven cloth, its hue
relieved only by the purple trimmings of a kingly jacket. Purple, too, was the skullcap that topped his
head.

His face placed him as an Oriental. Saffron in shade, it produced a chameleon effect, blending with the
golden light to render his features almost colorless.

Oddly, though, the result was a sharpness of those features. Absorbing the light about them, they stood
out with a clarity that revealed every line in the man's demoniac countenance.

No brush could have portrayed a face so fiendish as that which the gold-robed man produced in life
through his own emotionless effort.
Wide of forehead, tapering to pointed chin, the face was an inverted triangle. Its eyes were greenish, like
those of a night-prowling beast. Above those eyes were brows that made curved streaks, clear to the
wide temples. Between the eyes a sharp, downward line marked a thin, high-bridged nose.

Brownish lips, scarcely discernible until they opened, were topped by thin, drooping mustaches; while a