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The Master Key - Who Knows?
Who Knows?
These things are quite improbable, to be sure; but are they impossible?
Our big world rolls over as smoothly as it did centuries ago, without a squeak to show it needs oiling after all these years of revolution. But times change because men change, and because civilization, like John Brown's soul, goes ever marching on.
The impossibilities of yesterday become the accepted facts of to-day.
Here is a fairy tale founded upon the wonders of electricity and written for children of this generation. Yet when my readers shall have become men and women my story may not seem to their children like a fairy tale at all.
Perhaps one, perhaps two--perhaps several of the Demon's devices will be, by that time, in popular use.
Who knows?
The Master Key - 1. Rob's Workshop
1. Rob's WorkshopWhen Rob became interested in electricity his clear-headed father considered the boy's fancy to be instructive as well as amusing; so he heartily encouraged his son, and Rob never lacked batteries, motors or supplies of any sort that his experiments might require.He fitted up the little back room in the attic as his workshop, and from thence a net-work of wires soon ran throughout the house. Not only had every outside door its electric bell, but every window was fitted with a burglar alarm; moreover no one could cross the threshold of any interior room without registering the fact
The Celtic Twilight - INTO THE TWILIGHT
INTO THE TWILIGHTOut-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the gray twilight; Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Thy mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and twilight gray, Though hope fall from thee or love decay Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. Come, heart hill is heaped upon hill, For there the mystical brotherhood Of hollow wood and the hilly wood And the changing moon work out their will. And God stands winding his lonely horn; And Time and World are ever- The Master Key - 1. Rob's Workshop
- The Master Key - 2. The Demon of Electricity
- The Master Key - 3. The Three Gifts
- The Master Key - 4. Testing the Instruments
- The Master Key - 5. The Cannibal Island
- The Master Key - 6. The Buccaneers
- The Master Key - 7. The Demon Becomes Angry
- The Master Key - 8. Rob Acquires New Powers
- The Master Key - 9. The Second Journey
- The Master Key - 10. How Rob Served a Mighty King