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Title: Bones
Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country

Author: Edgar Wallace

Release Date: January 29, 2008 [EBook #24450]

Language: English

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"BONES"

being

Further Adventures in
Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country

BY

EDGAR WALLACE

Author of "Sanders of the River," etc.

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON AND MELBOURNE

To

Isabel Thorn

WHO WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE

FOR BRINGING SANDERS

INTO BEING

This Book is Dedicated

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

PROLOGUE--SANDERS, C.M.G 7

I HAMILTON OF THE HOUSSAS 52

II THE DISCIPLINARIANS 71

III THE LOST N'BOSINI 88

IV THE FETISH STICK 108

V A FRONTIER AND A CODE 123

VI THE SOUL OF THE NATIVE WOMAN 148

VII THE STRANGER WHO WALKED BY NIGHT 164

VIII A RIGHT OF WAY 180

IX THE GREEN CROCODILE 193

X HENRY HAMILTON BONES 209

XI BONES AT M'FA 225

XII THE MAN WHO DID NOT SLEEP 240

"BONES"

PROLOGUE

SANDERS--C.M.G.

I

You will never know from the perusal of the Blue Book the true
inwardness of the happenings in the Ochori country in the spring of the
year of Wish. Nor all the facts associated with the disappearance of the
Rt. Hon. Joseph Blowter, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

W