Chapter Three Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook IMPATIENCE FLARED IN IVAN VASILOVICH as he stood on a lower step of the high altar in the Cathedral of the Assumption. The sonorous tones of Makary were ringing in his ears. Below, at the foot of the…
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Chapter 4 Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook BETWEEN the city-state of Croma and the marquisate of Cavareggio lay a broad alluvial plain watered by the rivers Serrio and Oglio and their tributaries. It was a region rich in grasslands, where herds of sheep and goats…
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Chapter III Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook The Council troopers were at my elbow, one of them bowing slightly, asking me to accompany him and his men. I think he would have been horrified had I refused, so accustomed was he to obedience. I nodded,…
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CHAPTER FOUR Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook The star-ship eased into norm-space just outside the Capellan system. To go further sun-ward might bring a blast of deadly implosi-radiation from a Patrol ship. Carrick clung to the controls until a code signal activated his talkidisc as…
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Chapter 3 Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook Grayness. And a kind of death. This was his first impression after the blackness. His eyelids rose upward, seeming almost to creak from long disuse. He was staring at a room that was rimed with dust and the…
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FOUR Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook THROUGH THREE black doors and two roseate ovals Bran and Peganna traveled before they put foot on the planet Molween. The Crenn Lir had another, unknown name for this world; Molween was an Empire term given it by an…
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Chapter Two Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook Camerone sprawls like a great green carpet across the Umbrian Apennines. From the mountain roads which run like broad ribbons across its flatter levels, its stone fortress appears to tower upward as might a massive fist poised to…
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Chapter II Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook Ilarion walked swiftly along the Via Lata, in the cool of early evening. He was no longer the stable-boy in leather and homespun woolens, but a young dandy in slashed maroon velvet trunks and doublet, ornate with crimson…
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Chapter FOUR Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook Kyrik bought the horses. He would have been a fool not to, he told himself. Yet he did not like the smell of the purchase. There was too much left unsaid, for no matter how hard he pressed…
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Chapter One Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook The man moved swiftly through the shadows of the Via Colonna. It was early fall in this year 1746, and the cool night wind off the Apennines ruffled the folds of the thick greatcoat which sheathed him from…