Excerpts from the Book 'The Valley Of The Flame':

... lighted window. Luiz! Raft called sharply. Manoel! We've got visitors. A feeble hail came across the water, and he saw the two outlines slump ...
... she was gone. It had all happened almost between one breath and the next, and he was left standing there staring down at the lens and remembering the ...
... face, laughing back across his shoulder, white teeth glittering in the velvety beard. Triumph was arrogant in his laughter, the elation ...
... him into the invisible tunnel. Rifle at the ready, he backed after it, and under his feet the yielding earth gave place to something hard and smooth. ...
... And his tongue might have been a danger. Sudden rage flooded Raft. The bearded man's arrogance, his indifference, even the subtle wrongness he ...
... of them had drawn a sword. He sprang toward the wall where his rifle leaned, saw that he would be intercepted, and snatched out his revolver. Thin, ...
... Small cascades and waterfalls dropped, with hypnotic, quiet slowness, into the pools beneath. Ripples spread out very gently, very slowly, to die against ...
... a king. But she knew that in her arms, any man might be the emperor of the universe, and the equal of the gods. Nor was she wrong. If her embrace meant death, ...
... on it. Raft obeyed. There was a sudden whir and a flash of steel, and the cushion was almost torn from his hand. From the smooth wall beneath the ...
... stone crumble faster. It influences living cells only. The animal world, and plants. That is what happened. The Flame wakened, Janissa supplemented. ...
... unhealthy, the girl said quietly. If Parror has found a way to protect himself against the Garden, he's wiser than I thought. But I fear for Craddock. Why? ...
... crept through the curtain, taking Raft in a warm embrace. Yrann's music was magic. Dark magic, Raft thought angrily. He shook his head savagely. After ...
... He stared at the dial, noticing that the second hand was moving very slowly. He turned the crystal on the amulet again and the pointer moved faster. ...
... went on. He saw another of the armored animals, but it was licking the stem of a fern-mushroom, and did not notice him. Then a clearing opened ...
... linen was spread. Association clicked in Raft's brain. He remembered more than food now. He remembered civilization. And with that thought came realization ...
... the gloom at last into the cool green light from the leafy vault, far overhead, that roofed Paititi. It was like finding sanctuary. But not quite. A ...
... in the valley, elements which were now exhausted. They found that the truth lay not only in the material of the amulet's setting, but in the intricate ...
... her fingers. He touched the strings, and their sad music hung forlornly in the quiet air. I would have crushed Paititi, Darum said. I would have-crushed ...
... inch of his skin. Like that. Something down below, where the light was, so vitally alive that he felt himself standing on its palm. And something ...
... Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been ...