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Title: The Keepers of the King's Peace

Author: Edgar Wallace

Release Date: June 15, 2008 [EBook #25803]

Language: English

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THE KEEPERS OF
THE KING'S PEACE

BY
EDGAR WALLACE

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON AND MELBOURNE

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE WHITEFRIARS PRESS LTD.,
LONDON AND TONBRIDGE

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I BONES, SANDERS AND ANOTHER 5

II BONES CHANGES HIS RELIGION 28

III THE MAKER OF STORMS 53

IV BONES AND THE WIRELESS 75

V THE REMEDY 99

VI THE MEDICINE MAN 117

VII BONES, KING-MAKER 135

VIII THE TAMER OF BEASTS 154

IX THE MERCENARIES 169

X THE WATERS OF MADNESS 191

XI EYE TO EYE 215

XII THE HOODED KING 233

TO

PAT

(P. M. C. W.)

THE KEEPERS OF THE KING'S PEACE

CHAPTER I

BONES, SANDERS AND ANOTHER

To Isongo, which stands upon the tributary of that name, came a woman of
the Isisi who had lost her husband through a providential tree falling
upon him. I say "providential," for it was notorious that he was an evil
man, a drinker of beer and a favourite of many bad persons. Also he made
magic in the forest, and was reputedly the familiar of Bashunbi the
devil brother of M'shimba-M'shamba. He beat his wives, and once had set
fire to his house from sheer wickedness. So that whe