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Title: The Tower of Dago

Author: Mor Jokai

Release Date: May 26, 2010 [EBook #32538]

Language: English

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The Tower of Dago

[Illustration: SANDS AND COMP^Y]

[Illustration: "He threw the lamp-light on her face" (p. 89)]

[Illustration: The Tower of Dago]

By Maurus Jokai

_Illustrations by A. M. Bishop_

[Illustration: London Sands & Co. 1899]

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. THE TOWER 1
II. BACK TO THE SEA 6
III. THE OBSERVATORY 20
IV. THE SORCERER 35
V. THE FAMINE 41
VI. COMPENSATION 52
VII. THE MEETING 54
VIII. RECONCILIATION 70
IX. THE MINSTER BELL 75
X. WEAKNESS 88
XI. THE SEVERED CORD 93
XII. NEMESIS 99

[Illustration]

CHAPTER I

The Tower

As the steamer from Stralsund is approaching the Gulf of Finland, the
passenger's attention is attracted by an object which projects high
out of the sea. He will hear the seamen call it the Tower of Dago. An
old and wealthy Englishman, he may be told, on one occasion felt
impelled by curiosity to ask the captain what it would cost him to
examine the ruin close at hand. The answer was clothed in language
less polite than forcible: "Merely the shrivelled skin and dried-up
bones you carry about with you, sir!"

For hitherto the Tower of Dago has been spared an appearance in our
art galleries only by the circumstance that it cannot well be got
before the painter's easel. It is built upon the outermost point of a
rocky promontory of the great island of Dago. The projecting headland
lies obliquely across the northern current, and the sea makes a
ceaseless seething whirlpool round the