Edgar Wallace

The Council of Justice Edgar Wallace

Book Excerptlatitudes, if the truth be told, but at some time in the history of revolution, some long dead genius had coined them, and newly fashioned in the furnace of his soul they had shaped men's minds and directed their great and dreadful deeds. So the Woman of Gratz arrived, and they talked about her and circulated her speeches in every language. And she grew. The hollow face of this lank girl filled, and the flat bosom rounded and there came softer lines and curves to her angular figure, and, almost before they realized the fact, she was beautiful. So her fame had grown until her father died and she went to Russia. Then came a series of outrages which may be categorically and briefly set forth: --1: General Maloff shot dead by an unknown woman in his private room at the Police Bureau, Moscow.2: Prince Hazallarkoff shot dead by an unknown woman in the streets of Petrograd.3: Colonel Kaverdavskov killed by a bomb thrown by a woman who made her escape. And the Woman of Gra