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# The Moon and Sixpence/Chapter XXVII

TWO or three weeks passed. One morning, having come to a pause in my work, I thought I would give myself a holiday, and I went to the Louvre. I wandered about looking at the pictures I knew so well, and let my fancy play idly with the emotions they suggested. I sauntered into the long gallery, and there suddenly saw Stroeve. I smiled, for his appearance, so rotund and yet so startled, could never fail to excite a smile, and then as I came nearer I noticed that he seemed singularly disconsolate. He looked woebegone and yet ridiculous, like a man who has fallen into the water with all his clothes on, and, being rescued from death, frightened still, feels that he only looks a fool. Turning round, he stared at me, but I perceived that he did not see me. His round blue eyes looked harassed behind his glasses.
"Stroeve," I said.
He gave a little start, and then smiled, but his smile was rueful.
"Why are you idling in this disgraceful fashion?" I asked gaily.
"It's a long time since I was at the Louvre. I thought I'd come and see if they had anything new."
"But you told me you had to get a picture finished this week."
"Strickland's painting in my studio."
"Well?"
"I suggested it myself. He's not strong enough to go back to his own place yet. I thought we could both paint there. Lots of fellows in the Quarter share a studio. I thought it would be fun. I've always thought it would be jolly to have someone to talk to when one was tired of work."
He said all this slowly, detaching statement from statement with a little awkward silence, and he kept his kind, foolish eyes fixed on mine. They were full of tears.
"I don't think I understand," I said.
"Strickland can't work with anyone else in the studio."
"Damn it all, it's your studio. That's his lookout."
He looked at me pitifully. His lips were trembling.
"What happened?" I asked, rather sharply.
He hesitated and flushed. He glanced unhappily at one of the pictures on the wall.
"He wouldn't let me go on painting. He told me to get out."
"But why didn't you tell him to go to hell?"
"He turned me out. I couldn't very well struggle with him. He threw my hat after me, and locked the door."
I was furious with Strickland, and was indignant with myself, because Dirk Stroeve cut such an absurd figure that I felt inclined to laugh.
"But what did your wife say?"
"She'd gone out to do the marketing."
"Is he going to let her in?"
"I don't know."
I gazed at Stroeve with perplexity. He stood like a schoolboy with whom a master is finding fault.
"Shall I get rid of Strickland for you?" I asked.
He gave a little start, and his shining face grew very red.
"No. You'd better not do anything."
He nodded to me and walked away. It was clear that for some reason he did not want to discuss the matter. I did not understand.
# The Land of Many Names

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Originally published in Czech as Země mnoha jmen in 1923.
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THE LAND OF MANY NAMES
A PLAY IN THREE ACTS AND A TRANSFORMATION
BY JOSEF ČAPEK
Authorised Translation from the Czech by PAUL SELVER
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1
Printed in Great Britain by UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, LONDON AND WOKING
First published in 1926 (All rights reserved)
CHARACTERS :
| ACT ONE ||
| Elan Chol. | A Beloved. |
| First Street-Sweeper. | A Zealot. |
| Second Street-Sweeper. | Dollarson. |
| A Drunkard. | Vandergold. |
| First Gossip. | First and Second Man from the Crowd. |
| Second Gossip. | First and Second Man from the Crowd. |
| Third Gossip. | First and Second Woman from the Crowd. |
| Pieris, a Poet of the Older School. | First and Second Woman from the Crowd. |
| Pieris, a Poet of the Older School. | The Crowd. |
| A Lover. |
| TRANSFORMATION ||
| First Workman. | A Mayor. |
| Second Workman. | Pieris. |
| First Constable. | Elan Chol. |
| Second Constable. | A Lover. |
| A Stripling. | A Beloved. |
| First Man | School-children and Teachers. |
| Second Man. | School-children and Teachers. |
| Dollarson | The Crowd. |
| Vandergold. ​ |
| ACT TWO ||
| A Man with the Spade. | A Man in a Hurry. |
| A Father. | His Wife. |
| A Mother. | First Sandwichman. |
| A Stripling. | Second Sandwichman. |
| First Man. | Chorus of Paupers. |
| Pieris. | The Crowd. |
| A Lover. | Vandergold. |
| A Beloved. | A Woman in a Black Veil. |
| ACT THREE ||
| Elan Chol. | A Herald. |
| First and Second Disabled Soldiers. | First Man from the Crowd. |
| Third Soldier. | Dollarson. |
| A Blind Man. | Pieris. |
| A Citizen. | A Woman in a Black Veil. |
| A Lover. | An Army of Engineers, Soldiers and Officials. |
| An Old Mother. | An Army of Engineers, Soldiers and Officials. |
| A Widow. | The Crowd. |
| A Beloved. |
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# The Land of Midian

Part I - The March Through Madyan Proper (North Midian)
* Preliminary—from Trieste to Midian
* The Start—from El-muwaylah to the “White Mountain” and ‘Aynúah
* Breaking New Ground to Magháir Shu’ayb
* Notices of Precious Metals in Midian—the Papyri and the Mediæval Arab Geographers
* Work At, and Excursions From, Magháir Shu’Ayb
* To Makná, and Our Work There—the Magáni or Maknáwis
* Cruise from Maknáto El-‘Akabah
* Cruise from El-‘Akabah to El–Muwaylah—the Shipwreck Escaped–Résumé of the Northern Journey
Part II - The March Through Central and Eastern Midian
* Work in and Around El–Muwaylah
* Through East Midian to the Hismá
* The Unknown Lands South of the Hismá–Ruins of Shuwák and Shaghab
* From Shaghab to Zibá—ruins of El–Khandakí’ and Umm Ámil—the Turquoise Mine–Return to El–Muwaylah
* A Week Around and upon the Shárr Mountain–Résumé of the March Through Eastern or Central Midian
* Down South—to El–Wijh–Notes on the Quarantine—the Hutaym Tribe
* The Southern Sulphur-hill—the Cruise to El–Haurá—Notes on the Baliyy Tribe and the Volcanic Centres of North—Western Arabia
* Our Last March—the Inland Fort—Ruins of the Gold-mines at Umm El–Karáyát and Umm El–Haráb
* The March Continued to El–Badá–Description of the Plain Badais
* Coal a “Myth”—March to Marwát—Arrival at the Wady Hamz
* The Wady Hamz—the Classical Ruin—Abá‘l-Marú, the Mine of “Marwah”—Return to El–Wijh—Résumé of the Southern Journey
* Conclusion
# The Man Who Died Twice

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* “The Man Who Died Twice” (1921), a short story by Edgar Wallace
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* “The Man Who Died Twice” (1939), by Eli Colter
# The Man Who Knew (Edgar Wallace)

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[Front matter]
THE MAN WHO KNEW
Books by Edgar Wallace
A KING BY NIGHT
ANGEL, ESQUIRE
CAPTAINS OF SOULS
DIANA OF THE KARA-KARA
DOUBLE DAN
GREEN RUST
JACK O' JUDGMENT
KATE PLUS
ROOM 13
TAM O' THE SCOOTS
TERROR KEEP
THE ANGEL OF TERROR
THE BLACK ABBOT
THE CLUE OF THE NEW PIN
THE CLUE OF THE TWISTED CANDLE
THE CRIMSON CIRCLE
THE DAFFODIL MURDER
THE DOOR WITH SEVEN LOCKS
THE FACE IN THE NIGHT
THE FOUR JUST MEN
THE GIRL FROM SCOTLAND YARD
THE GREEN ARCHER
THE HAIRY ARM
THE MAN WHO KNEW
THE MIND OF MR. J. G. REEDER
THE MISSING MILLION
THE OTHER MAN
THE RINGER
THE SECRET HOUSE
THE SINISTER MAN
THE SQUEALER
THE STRANGE COUNTESS
THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE
THE TRAITORS' GATE
THE VALLEY OF GHOSTS
THE MAN WHO
KNEW
By EDGAR WALLACE
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Printed In U. S. A.
Copyright, 1918 By Small, Maynard & Company
(incorporated)
Second Printing, January, 1919
THE MAN WHO KNEW
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# The New International Encyclopædia/Bean, Saint Ignatius

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​ BEAN, Saint Ignatius. See Strychnos.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bean, Tarleton Hoffman

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​ BEAN, Tarleton Hoffman (1846—). An American ichthyologist, born at Bainbridge, Pa. In 1892 he became associated with the United States Fish Commission. From 1880 to 1895 he was curator of fishes at the United States National Museum, and from 1895 to 1897 was director of the New York Aquarium, which he organized. He was the commissioner in charge of fishes at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895, and at Paris in 1900. He published, with G. Brown Goode, Oceanic Ichthyology (Cambridge, 1896); also descriptive lists of the fishes of New York, Pennsylvania, and other districts; and many contributions to the publications of the Fish Commission, National Museum, and various societies.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bean-Goose

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​ BEAN-GOOSE. The small gray goose of Great Britain and Northern Europe. See Goose.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Baudissin, Wolf Heinrich, Graf von

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​BAUDISSIN, bou'dĭs-sĭn, Fr. pron. bṓ'dḗ'sāN', Wolf Heinrich, Graf von (1789-1878). A German author, born at Rantzau, in Holstein. He entered the diplomatic service of Denmark in 1810, and became secretary of legation successively at Stockholm, Vienna, and Paris. In 1827 he settled at Dresden, where he collaborated with Tieck in his famous German translation of Shakespeare. The following plays were translated by Baudissin, and were revised and annotated by Tieck: Othello; King Lear; Much Ado About Nothing; Comedy of Errors; Taming of the Shrew; Measure for Measure; All's Well that Ends Well; Troilus and Cressida; Love's Labor's Lost; Merry Wives of Windsor; Titus Andronicus; Antony and Cleopatra. Among Baudissin's other German translations are the comedies of Molière (4 vols., 1865-67).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bean-Feast

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​ BEAN-FEAST, also called WAYZ-GOOSE. The English custom of an annual outing and dinner of workmen. It is either given by the employers or subscribed for by the workmen themselves. The name or names are possibly derived from the fact that beans, or a bean-goose, figure prominently in the repast.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bauxite

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BAUXITE, bōks′īt (from Baux; see below). The most important ore of aluminum, a hydrate having the composition Al$_2$O$_3$3H$_2$O, though most occurrences contain also some silica, iron oxide, and titanium. The ore occurs in rounded grains, in pisolitic or claylike masses. The grains usually show a concentric structure and a variable color from white to yellow, brown, or red. It is named from its occurrence at Baux, in France, but it is also known from Styria and Carinthia, in Austria, and from Antrim, in Ireland. In the United States it occurs in a belt about 60
miles long, extending from northwestern Georgia into northeastern Alabama, and also in Arkansas, near Little Rock. The foreign deposits result from the chemical alteration of igneous rocks; the American deposits are thought to be hot-spring formations. Those of Alabama and Georgia are basin-shaped, and are limited vertically to points between 900 and 950 feet above sea-level. The composition of good-grade American ore is approximately as follows: Alumina, 57 to 62 per cent.; ferric oxide, under 1 per cent.; silica, 2.5 to 3 per cent.; titanic acid, 3 to 4 per cent.; water (combined), 20 to 30 per cent.; moisture, retained mechanically, 2 to 4 per cent. While bauxite serves chiefly as an ore of aluminum., it is also employed in the manufacture of alum, and for lining basic converters and Siemens-Martin furnaces in the manufacture of steel. Consult: Hayes, "Bauxite," Sixteenth Annual Report United States Geological Survey, Part 3 {Washington, 1895); Mineral Industry, Vol. II. (New York, 1893); Branner, “The Bauxite Deposits of Arkansas,” Journal of Geology, Vol. V. (Chicago, 1897). See, also, the articles on Alum and Aluminium.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Beach, Moses Yale

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​BEACH, Moses Yale (1800-68). An American inventor and publisher. He was born in Wallingford, Conn., and in early life was a cabinet-maker. He invented a rag-cutting machine for paper-mills, and engaged in the manufacture of paper. In 1835 he acquired an interest in the New York Sun, a penny daily paper begun in New York about three years earlier, and soon became sole proprietor. Leaving the paper to his sons, he retired in 1857 with an ample fortune.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bean-King's Festival

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​ BEAN-KING'S FES′TIVAL. A social rite principally observed in France, from which country it would seem to have been transplanted to Germany. On the evening of Twelfth Day, the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6), companies assemble to spend a few hours in mirthful relaxation. A large cake is baked, with a bean hidden somewhere in it. The cake is then divided into pieces, each person present receiving one, and whoever obtains the piece with the bean is king for the year. In this capacity he holds a mock court and receives the homage of the company, who also amuse themselves with other diversions. The Bean-King, however, is compelled to pay for his dignity, for he has to give an entertainment on the next Twelfth Night, that an opportunity may be afforded to choose another king. In France this custom was, at an earlier period, so common that even the Court indulged in it, although the Church, in the Seventeenth Century, exerted itself zealously for its suppression. It has left a trace in the popular expression for a lucky man, ‘Il a trouvé la fève au gateau’ (‘he has found the bean in the cake’). The opinion that the Bean-King's Festival owes its origin to the Roman saturnalia, when even the children, partaking in the universal glee, were wont to elect a king, is not destitute of probability.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bautzen

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BAUTZEN, bout'sen, or BAUDISSIN, bou'dḗ-sḗn (Wendish Budyśin, hut-city, from Slav. buda, hut, tent. Engl. booth). The capital of the Circle of the same name in the Kingdom of Saxony, and a thriving manufacturing town, known for its products of woolens and other textiles, leather, paper, metallic goods, etc. (Map: Germany, F 3). It is situated on rising ground overlooking the river Spree, about 30 miles east-northeast of Dresden, and surrounded by a wall and moat. The Cathedral of Saint Peter is used by both Protestants and Roman Catholics, the church being divided into two parts by a grating for that purpose. The Castle of Ortenburg, often the residence of the kings of Bohemia, is now occupied by Government offices. The city's affairs are administered by a municipal council of 24 members and an executive board of 7. (See Germany, Local Government.) There are numerous schools, three public libraries, a museum, and an art gallery. Bautzen is a place of considerable antiquity, and was first made a town under Otho I. in the Tenth Century. It suffered greatly in the war with the Hussites, and still more during the Thirty Years' War. It is celebrated as the place where Napoleon, with an army of 130,000 men, after an obstinate resistance, won a barren victory over 90,000 of the allied Russians and Prussians on May 20-21, 1813. The Allies lost in the two days 12,000 in killed and wounded, in addition to 1500 taken prisoners. The French left 5000 dead upon the field, and had over 15,000 wounded. Population, in 1890, 22,000; in 1900, 26,000.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Baudissin, Wolf Wilhelm, Graf von

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​BAUDISSIN, Wolf Wilhelm, Graf von (1847— ). A German theologian, born at Sophienhof, Holstein. He studied at Berlin, Erlangen, Leipzig, and Kiel, and was professor at Strassburg from 1876 to 1881. From 1881 to 1900 he was professor at Marburg, and in the latter year was called to Berlin. He has published: Translationis Antiquæ Arabicæ Libri Jobi quæ Supersunt (1870); Studien zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte (1876-78); Die Geschichte des alttestamentlichen Priesterthums untersucht (1889); August Dillmann (1895).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Gutenberg, Johannes

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​ GUTENBERG, gōō′ten-bĕrK, Johannes (c.1400-c.1468). The inventor of printing from movable types. He was born at Mainz, of the patrician family of Gensfleisch; the latest investigations tend to fix the date between 1394 and 1399. The name of Gutenberg was taken from a property long supposed to have been brought in by his mother, but discovered by recent researches to have been in the possession of his great-grandfather. The family was expelled from Mainz in 1420 and took refuge in Strassburg, where Gutenberg is found living in 1434, having already acquired some reputation for technical skill. He left Strassburg for Mainz in 1444. Attempts at printing were heard of in various quarters; to carry out his own schemes, Gutenberg in 1450 associated himself with Johannes Fust, a wealthy citizen of Mainz, who supplied the money to set up a press and print the ‘forty-two-line’ Bible. Fust dissolved the partnership in 1455, and since Gutenberg could not repay his advances, retained possession of the plant, which he improved and used. In this manner, though Gutenberg was known as the inventor throughout the fifteenth century, it was possible to claim the honor for Fust in the sixteenth; but for a century past the Dutch Coster (q.v.) has been the only serious rival of Gutenberg, and the searching investigations carried on in 1900, in connection with the fifth centenary of his birth, have established Gutenberg's claims more firmly than ever.
His commercial success was never large. In 1465 the Archbishop Adolf, of Nassau, gave him a benefice, to which various privileges as well as an income were attached. He died at Mainz toward the end of 1467 or in the beginning of 1468. He has been honored by statues in various German towns, and in 1901 a Gutenberg museum was opened in his native town supported by a society also named after him. Consult: Van der Linde, Gutenbergs Geschichte und Erdichtung (Stuttgart, 1878); Börckel, Gutenberg (Giessen, 1897); Hessels, Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing? (London, 1882); Meissner and Luther, Die Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst (Bielefeld, 1900).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Guthe, Hermann

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​ GUTHE, gōō′te, Hermann (1825-74). A German geographer, born at Andreasberg in the Harz region, and educated at Göttingen and Berlin, where he was a pupil of Ritter. In 1873 he was appointed to the chair of geography at the Polytechnic Institute, Munich. He fell a victim to the cholera, January 29, 1874. His geographical works include: Die Lande Braunschweig und Hannover (2d ed. 1887; 4th abridged ed. 1890); Lehrbuch der Geographie für die mittleren und oberen Klassen höherer Bildungsanstalten (6th ed. 1894 et seq.).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Gustavia

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GUSTA'VIA. The capital of Saint Bartholomew (Saint-Barthélemy) (q.v.), a French island of the West Indies. It is on the southwestern coast, and has a good harbor.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Gustavus Adolphus Society

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GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS SOCIETY (Ger. Gustav-Adolf-Verein). A Protestant society, originating in Germany in 1832, for the purpose of aiding and supporting Protestant congregations. It was formed in Leipzig on the second centennial anniversary of the battle of Lützen, and of the death of Gustavus Adolphus, as a memorial to that champion of Protestantism.
Congregations are aided both in and out of Germany, and contributions are received from many countries, but more especially from Saxony and Sweden. Various women's aid societies are associated with it. Its yearly income is at present some 2,000,000 marks, and it has distributed since its foundation over 30,000,000 marks.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Gustavus III.

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GUSTAVUS III. (1746-92). King of Sweden from 1771 to 1792. He was born January 24, 1746, and succeeded his father, Adolphus Frederick (q.v.), in 1771, at a period when the royal power had almost disappeared before the encroachments of the nobility, and the country was distracted by the strife of the rival political parties known as the “Hats” and “Caps.” (See Caps and Hats.) Finding that the people, weary of the misrule of the nobles, were ready for any change, Gustavus covertly fomented the general discontent, and having raised a fictitious rebellion, through the agency of his friends and adherents, he collected a large body of troops, on pretense of restoring order, and arrested the council in a body, August 19, 1772. He convoked the Diet, and laid before it a new constitution to which the assembly was compelled to subscribe. A revolution was thus effected without the shedding of blood, and by a stroke of the pen Gustavus recovered all the regal powers that had been gradually lost by his immediate predecessors. He acted with great moderation after this successful coup d'état, and might have long retained the advantages he had gained if his love of display and his wish to emulate the King of France in extravagance and magnificence had not led him into profuse expenditure, which embarrassed the finances; at the same time, the introduction of the manners and usages of Versailles in his Court irritated the national party, while it undoubtedly tended to demoralize the upper classes. In 1788 he entered upon a war with Russia, when that empire was engaged in active hostilities against the Turks, but derived no advantage from the contest. In February, 1789, a Diet at Stockholm conferred extensive powers upon the King in the matters of war and of the civil administration. This incensed still further the turbulent nobility, who saw the royal authority thrive at the expense of the privileges of their class. A conspiracy against the King's life was formed, the leaders being Counts Ribbing and Horn and General Pechlin. On the night of March 16, 1792, Gustavus was mortally wounded by their agent, Anckarström (q.v.). at a masked ball in the opera house which he had himself built. The pistol had been loaded with broken
shot, which rendered the wound especially painful, and the King suffered the most dreadful agony for thirteen days before his death. Gustavus was a man of varied learning, and the author of several dramatic works and poems of considerable merit. His writings have been published in a collective form both in Swedish and French. In 1788 Gustavus deposited certain papers in the library of Upsala, which excited much interest from the fact that they were not to be opened for fifty years after his death. Their publication, which was confided to Geijer (q.v.), disappointed the general expectation, as they were found to consist of historical notes and letters of little value. Consult Bain, Gustavus III. and His Contemporaries, 1746-92 (London, 1894). See Sweden.