The White Lie

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William Le Queux

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"... Herr Strantz, the German engineer, a dark-haired, round-faced, middle-aged man, came forward, and, recognising the pair as visitors of the previous day, greeted them warmly in rather imperfect English, and bowed them into where, ranged on a long table, the whole length of the left-hand wall, stood a great quantity of mysterious-looking electrical appliances with a tangle of connecting wires, while below the tables stood a row of fully fifty large batteries, such as are used in telegraph work. On the table, amid that bewildering assortment of queer-looking instruments, all scrupulously clean and highly polished, were two small brass lamps burning behind a long, narrow strip of transparent celluloid whereon was marked a minute gauge. On the edge of the table, before these lamps, was a switch, with black ebonite handle. As the two Englishmen entered, the German's eyes caught the small, round brass clock and noted that it was time to make the test-every five minutes, night and day, while the cable was in process of completion..."

Author Biography:

William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 - 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer.

Release date Australia

May 2nd, 2017

Author

William Le Queux

Pages

202

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

152x229x11

ISBN-13

9781546422297

Product ID

37430784

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