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Title: The Road to Mandalay
A Tale of Burma

Author: B. M. Croker

Release Date: April 23, 2006 [eBook #18239]

Language: English

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THE ROAD TO MANDALAY

A Tale of Burma

by

B. M. Croker

Cassell and Company, Ltd
London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne
First published October 1917.
Reprinted December 1917, March and May 1918
Popular Edition 1919.

TO

LT.-COLONEL A. E. CONGDON

LATE ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS

FROM HIS OLD FRIEND

THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

1. BLINDS DOWN
2. WHAT HANNAH SAID
3. THE CLOSED HOUSE
4. KICKS AND HALFPENCE
5. CLOUDS
6. AN EMPTY OFFER
7. "THE MONSTER"
8. BOUND FOR BURMA
9. THE "BLANKSHIRE"
10. THE LAND OF PROMISE
11. A BURMESE HOSTESS
12. EAST AND WEST
13. "KEEP AN EYE UPON HER"
14. THE MANTLE OF FERNANDA
15. THE CHUMMERY
16. MR. AND MRS. ABELSALTER
17. AT THE PLAY
18. THE CHINESE SHOP
19. CHAFF
20. THE PONGYE
21. THE COCAINE DEN
22. THE APPROACHING DREAD
23. MYSTERY AND SUSPICION
24. SENTENCE OF DEATH
25. THE LATE RICHARD ROSCOE
26. FITZGERALD IMPARTS INFORMATION
27. A ROPE TRICK
28. MA CHIT
29. MUNG BAW
30. ENLIGHTENMENT
31. SEEING IS BELIEVING
32. ON DUTY
33. SOPHY
34. ALL IS OVER
35. MUNG BAW LIES LOW
36. THE BOMBSHELL
37. THE TUG OF WAR
38. SERGEANT-MAJOR RYAN

THE ROAD TO MANDALAY

CHAPTER I

BLINDS DOWN

"What do you think, Mitty? All the blinds are down at 'Littlecote,'"
announced Miss Jane Tebbs, bursting open the drawing-room door and
disturbing her sister in a surreptitious game of patience. In
well-ordered households the mistress is understood to have various
domestic tasks claiming her attention in the morning. Cards should
never appear until after sunset.

"Blinds down?" echoed Miss Tebbs, hastily moving a newspaper in the
hope of concealing her ill-doing. "Why are you in s