The Despatch Rider E-Book

Edgar Wallace

• Herausgeber: Al-Mashreq eBookstore
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Seitenzahl: 19

Beschreibung

The Despatch Rider by Edgar Wallace is a pulse-pounding wartime thriller that follows the dangerous and heroic missions of a lone despatch rider during World War I. Tasked with delivering critical messages across enemy lines, the rider faces peril at every turn—from treacherous terrain to relentless enemy forces. With the fate of many resting on his shoulders, he must navigate through the fog of war, driven by duty and a relentless will to survive. But when a single mission takes an unexpected twist, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could change the course of the war. Will he complete his mission, or will the secrets he uncovers spell disaster?

Leseprobe

The Despatch Rider

Author: Edgar Wallace

Edited by: Seif Moawad

Copyright © 2024 by Al-Mashreq eBookstore

First published in The Strand Magazine, Dec 1914, pp 717-721

No part of this publication may be reproduced whole or in part in any form without the prior written permission of the author

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Table of Contents

The Despatch Rider

I

II

Landmarks

The Council of Justice

Cover

I

LADY GALLIGAY was always always starting things: other people usually carried them on, complaining bitterly the while that they had ever been born to assume the responsibilities which Lady Galligay created. For the "things" that she started with such zest invariably ended and finished without any assistance whatsoever. They faded away without violence and without noise. In January all Tadminster would be talking of Lady Galligay's newest project; there would be drawing-room meetings innumerable. They might even develop shape as a "cause," and attain to thc dignity of a public meeting, recorded in large type in the Tadminster Times. But by April, so feeble would the flame of interest flicker, that it was a case of "By the way, what happened to that great scheme of Lady Gally's?" when men and women met.

The Tadminster Mounted Nurse and Despatch-Rider Corps was one of this feather-brained little lady's most brilliant inventions. She was forty, and vague. and rich, and immensely energetic, and if she lacked stamina it was not to be expected that all the virtues of organization should dwell in one small body. It was after her "Cottage and Pigsty" for the democracy had been rejected by the same democracy, although two cottages were built and a whole drove of pigs had been mobilized, that Lady Galligay had planned her Mounted Nurses' Corps. It was an idea—even George Mestrell agreed that it was an idea, but, of course, he never dreamt that Jo would take up with the beasly thing. If the truth be told, Jo was rather aghast at finding herself enrolled, but Lady Gally was so awfully plausible, and well, there it was; George must take the situation as he found it, or leave it.