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diff --git a/57904-8.txt b/57904-0.txt index 1937133..3f9b75e 100644 --- a/57904-8.txt +++ b/57904-0.txt @@ -1,32 +1,7 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Doom of London, by Frederick Merrick White +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 57904 *** -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. -Title: The Doom of London - The Four Days' Night - The Dust of Death - The Four White - Days - The Invisible Force - The River of Death - A Bubble - Burst -Author: Frederick Merrick White - -Release Date: September 14, 2018 [EBook #57904] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DOOM OF LONDON *** - - - - -Produced by Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature -(Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust) @@ -85,7 +60,7 @@ I. The editor of _The Daily Chat_ wondered a little vaguely why he had -come down to the office at all. Here was the thermometer down to 11° +come down to the office at all. Here was the thermometer down to 11° with every prospect of touching zero before daybreak, and you can't fill a morning paper with weather reports. Besides, nothing was coming in from the North of the Trent beyond the curt information that all @@ -207,7 +182,7 @@ only two or three main roads running north and south, and east and west were at all passable. Meanwhile the gripping frost never abated a jot. The thermometer stood -steadily at 15° below freezing even in the forenoon; the ordinary tweed +steadily at 15° below freezing even in the forenoon; the ordinary tweed clothing of the average Briton was sorry stuff to keep out a wind like that. But for the piercing draught the condition of things might have been tolerable. London had experienced colder weather so far as degrees @@ -294,7 +269,7 @@ be for some days to come. The price of bread quickly advanced to ninepence the loaf, and it was impossible to purchase the cheapest meat under two shillings per pound. Bacon and flour, and such like provisions, rose in a corresponding -ratio; coal was offered at £2 per ton, with the proviso that the +ratio; coal was offered at £2 per ton, with the proviso that the purchaser must fetch it himself. Meanwhile, there was no cheering news from the outside--London seemed @@ -2375,7 +2350,7 @@ great scourge? Electricity. What kills this new disease and renders it powerless? Electricity. And what is the great agent to fight dirt and filth with whenever it exists in great quantities? Always electricity. It has not been done before on the ground of expense, and look at the -consequences! In one way and another it will cost London £2,000,000 to +consequences! In one way and another it will cost London £2,000,000 to settle this matter. It was only a little over a third of that I asked for. Wait till you hear me talk!" @@ -2459,7 +2434,7 @@ marked by an extraordinary commercial and financial activity; an amount of world-wide speculations never equalled in intensity, even in the mad times of the South Sea Bubble, or when Hudson, the Railway King, flourished. The countless millions piled up in English banks earning -a 2½ per cent. interest were lavishly withdrawn, new mines had been +a 2½ per cent. interest were lavishly withdrawn, new mines had been started, everybody was going to be rich. On the face of it people had good ground for their sanguine expectations. The Rand with its forty square miles of rich gold-bearing reefs containing an untold @@ -2494,7 +2469,7 @@ His partner sat opposite him behind a big cigar. He was a fat man with a big jaw and a merciless mouth. Six months before Eli Smith had been a fairly well-to-do suburban butcher. Now he was E. Asherton-Smith, the big financial agent. He boasted, with truth, that he could sign a -cheque for £40,000 and be none the worse for it. In the area of the +cheque for £40,000 and be none the worse for it. In the area of the City it would have been difficult to find two choicer specimens of rascality than the partners in Ericsson & Co. @@ -2614,7 +2589,7 @@ place and the flooding of some of the richest mines below the town. The West Coast cable was under repair and incapable of use. But that frequently happened, as most people interested in South Africa know. -There was no chance of the truth trickling back to London _viâ_ +There was no chance of the truth trickling back to London _viâ_ Australia or New York. And now the Eastern line had broken down also, as all deep sea cables do on occasion. @@ -2705,7 +2680,7 @@ names were good on "'Change" for any amount in reason; they reckoned themselves rich and comfortable. But the strain of the situation was getting on their nerves. -"I'd give £50,000 to have my way here for a few hours, Henderson," said +"I'd give £50,000 to have my way here for a few hours, Henderson," said one. "I'd give twice that to feel that I had what I deemed myself to possess @@ -2738,7 +2713,7 @@ strike a million brains simultaneously. With one accord they rushed to the line of action that might be the ruin of one-third of them. Just for the time purchases by a few bold speculators stopped the rush; but presently they got filled up or frightened, so that by two o'clock some -of the best paper in the market was begging at a few shillings the £1 +of the best paper in the market was begging at a few shillings the £1 share. When the fact struck New York and reacted on the London market, nobody knew what might happen. @@ -2791,7 +2766,7 @@ represented in the governor's parlour. The presiding genius of the South African Industrial found his way into the meeting. He was sorry to trouble them: he would not have come unless he had been absolutely bound to. But there was a run on his -bank, and he wanted £2,000,000 immediately. As to security---- +bank, and he wanted £2,000,000 immediately. As to security---- One of the grave financiers laughed aloud. It seemed an awful thing to do in that solemn and decorous parlour, but nobody seemed to notice. @@ -2799,7 +2774,7 @@ But there was a general consensus of opinion that the money must be forthcoming. If one sound bank was allowed to topple over, goodness only knew where the catastrophe might end. -"You will have to do with £500,000 for the present," the chairman +"You will have to do with £500,000 for the present," the chairman said. "There are sure to be applications. You must be diplomatic; _festina lente_, you know." @@ -2976,7 +2951,7 @@ vocation with impunity. They had only to mark down some rich prize and plunder. Individuals shrieked that they had been robbed, but nobody took any notice. -A burly, red-faced farmer yelled that he had been robbed of £800 in +A burly, red-faced farmer yelled that he had been robbed of £800 in Bank of England notes. Someone by him retorted that it was no loss, seeing that there was a run on the great National Bank. @@ -3126,7 +3101,7 @@ were devoted to that. "If any of you gentlemen like to call at the Cable Company's offices and see the scores of duplicate cypher messages, all more or less -alike, you will be convinced that the employés there are not in the +alike, you will be convinced that the employés there are not in the least at fault. We have been the victims of a clever conspiracy. We can safely leave the rest to the police." @@ -3233,7 +3208,7 @@ have to be patched up till a strong gang could be turned on to the work. The raw apprentice was still gazing at the knot of pipes. What fun it would be to cut that water-main and flood the tunnels! -In an hour the scaffolding was done and the _débris_ cleared away. +In an hour the scaffolding was done and the _débris_ cleared away. To-morrow night a gang of men would come and make the concrete good and restore the steel rim to the dome. The tube was deserted. It looked like a polished, hollow needle, lighted here and there by points of @@ -3416,7 +3391,7 @@ You stay where you are, sir." But the two young men pushed on. They reached what appeared to be St. James's Street at length, but only by stumbling and climbing over -heaps of _débris_. +heaps of _débris_. The roadway was one mass of broken masonry. The fronts of some of the clubs had been stripped off as if a titanic knife had sliced them. It @@ -3469,7 +3444,7 @@ I was _in_ that railway collision. Then, when I got my senses back, I blundered down here because of that big flaring light there; and I can't tell you, gentlemen, any more, except that the tube has blown up." -Of that fact there was no question. There were piles of _débris_ thrown +Of that fact there was no question. There were piles of _débris_ thrown high in one part, and a long deep depression in another like a ruined dyke. A little further on the steel core of the tube lay bare with rugged holes ripped in it. @@ -3600,7 +3575,7 @@ Mr. Alton Rossiter cut the speaker short. be able to get into the tunnel there." Fergusson was quite ready. The damage in Bond Street was not so great, -though the lift shaft was filled with _débris_, and it became necessary +though the lift shaft was filled with _débris_, and it became necessary to cut a way into the station before the funnel was reached. For a couple of hundred yards the tube was intact; beyond that point @@ -3813,7 +3788,7 @@ knots of cable wire under their feet and over their heads were like brambles in the forest. If one of these had given way, all of them might be destroyed. It was the kind of work that causes the scalp to rise and the heart to beat and the body to perspire even on the coldest -day. Now and then a cable upheld by some _débris_ would slip; there +day. Now and then a cable upheld by some _débris_ would slip; there would be a sudden cry, and the workmen would skip back, breathing heavily. @@ -3873,7 +3848,7 @@ entrance was forced. The station was a veritable wreck; but for two hundred yards the tunnel was clear before them. Then came a jammed wall of timber, the end of a railway carriage standing on end. The timbers were twisted, huge baulks -of wood were bent like a bow. A way was soon made through the _débris_, +of wood were bent like a bow. A way was soon made through the _débris_, and Fergusson yelled aloud. [Illustration: Out of the velvety darkness of the tube a man staggered @@ -4348,7 +4323,7 @@ a thing as this. There was only one thing for it. It was no time for kid glove remedies. Six of the great London Water Companies had their supply cut off within an hour. It is almost impossible to sit down and realise what this -means, and that under a sky like brass and the thermometer at 97° in +means, and that under a sky like brass and the thermometer at 97° in the shade. Try and imagine it for a moment, and try and wonder why the thing has @@ -4778,7 +4753,7 @@ wise bowed to the inevitable and served out their stock till it was exhausted and said so with cheerful faces. In the Strand the cellars of certain famous restaurants were looted and one proprietor proclaimed that Whitechapel and Shoreditch had taken from him wines to the value -of £30,000. Men were standing in the Strand with strange dusty bottles +of £30,000. Men were standing in the Strand with strange dusty bottles in their hands, the necks of which they knocked off without ceremony to reach the precious liquid within. For the most part they were disappointed. There were murmurs of disgust and wry faces at the stored @@ -4940,365 +4915,4 @@ THE END. 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