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Title: Olga Romanoff
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Griffith, George Chetwynd
Subjects: Utopias
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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ith the utmost secrecyin a lonely hut buried in the forests of Norway, he and sixothers, who were, as he thought, devoted to him and the gloriouscause of wresting the empire of the world from the grasp of theTerrorists, had built an air-ship that would have been swifterand more powerful than any of their aerial fleet. Two days before she was ready to take the air, one of hismen deserted. The traitor was never seen again, but the nextnight a Terrorist vessel descended from the clouds, and in a fewminutes not a vestige of our air-ship or her creators remained.Only a blackened waste in the midst of the forest was left toshow the scene of their labours. Within forty-eight hours, itwas known all over the civilised world that Vladimir Eomanoffand his associates had been killed by order of the SupremeCouncil, for endeavouring to build an air-ship in defiance of itscommands. Such are the enemies against whom you will have to con-tend. They are still virtually the masters of the world, and the
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Not a Vestige of ouk Air-Shu or ker Creators remained. rage 22. A Crownless King 23 task before you is to wrest that mastery from them. It is nolight task, but it is not impossible ; for these Aerians are, afterall, but men and women as you are, and what they have done,other men and women can surely do. The Great Secret cannot always remain theirs alone.While they actively controlled the nations, nothing could bedone against them, for their hand was everywhere and theireyes saw everything. But now they have abdicated the throneof the world, and left the nations to rule themselves as they can.For a time things will go on in their present grooves, but thatwill not be for long. I, who am their bitterest enemy on earth, am forced to con-fess that the Terrorists have proved themselves to be the wisestas well as the strongest of despots. Under their rule the worldhas become a paradise—for the canaille and the multitude.But they have curbed the mob as well as the king, and abolishedthe dem

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