The Ball and the Cross

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The Ball and the Cross - A Discussion Somewhat in the Air - (1)
The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue em…
The Ball and the Cross - A Discussion Somewhat in the Air - (2)
Lucifer was looking at him with a bitten lip. “Is that story really true?” he asked. “Oh, no,” said Michael, airily. “It is a parable. It i…
The Religion of the Stipendiary Magistrate
The editorial office of The Atheist had for some years past become less and less prominently interesting as a feature of Ludgate Hill. The…
Some Old Curiosities
The evening sky, a dome of solid gold, unflaked even by a single sunset cloud, steeped the meanest sights of London in a strange and mellow…
A Discussion at Dawn
The duellists had from their own point of view escaped or conquered the chief powers of the modern world. They had satisfied the magistrate…
The Peacemaker
When the combatants, with crossed swords, became suddenly conscious of a third party, they each made the same movement. It was as quick as…
The Other Philosopher
Between high hedges in Hertfordshire, hedges so high as to create a kind of grove, two men were running. They did not run in a scampering o…
The Village of Grassley-in-the-Hole
At about half past one, under a strong blue sky, Turnbull got up out of the grass and fern in which he had been lying, and his still interm…
An Interlude of Argument
Morning broke in bitter silver along the grey and level plain; and almost as it did so Turnbull and MacIan came out of a low, scrubby wood…
The Ball and the Cross - The Strange Lady - (1)
Moonrise with a great and growing moon opened over all those flats, making them seem flatter and larger than they were, turning them to a l…
The Ball and the Cross - The Strange Lady - (2)
The car shot on up and down the shining moonlit lanes, and there was no sound in it except the occasional click or catch of its machinery;…
The Ball and the Cross - The Swords Rejoined - (1)
As they came over the hill and down on the other side of it, it is not too much to say that the whole universe of God opened over them and…
The Ball and the Cross - The Swords Rejoined - (2)
He drank in the last green and the last red and the last gold, those unique and indescribable things of God, as a man drains good wine at t…
The Ball and the Cross - A Scandal in the Village - (1)
In the little hamlet of Haroc, in the Isle of St. Loup, there lived a man who though living under the English flag was absolutely untypical…
The Ball and the Cross - A Scandal in the Village - (2)
Bert saw in front of him the inevitable heroine of the novels trying to prevent bloodshed; and his pale firm face became implacable. “I wou…
The Desert Island
Those who happen to hold the view (and Mr. Evan MacIan, now alive and comfortable, is among the number) that something supernatural, some e…
The Garden of Peace
Up to this instant Evan MacIan had really understood nothing; but when he saw the policeman he saw everything. He saw his enemies, all the…
The Ball and the Cross - A Museum of Souls - (1)
The man with the good hat and the jumping elbow went by very quickly; yet the man with the bad hat, who thought he was God, overtook him. H…
The Ball and the Cross - A Museum of Souls - (2)
“Why were you wanting to humble a god when you found him in this garden?” asked MacIan. “That was an extreme case of impudence,” said Turnb…
The Dream of MacIan
The system of espionage in the asylum was so effective and complete that in practice the patients could often enjoy a sense of almost compl…
The Dream of Turnbull
Turnbull was walking rather rampantly up and down the garden on a gusty evening chewing his cigar and in that mood when every man suppresse…
The Ball and the Cross - The Idiot - (1)
Evan MacIan was standing a few yards off looking at him in absolute silence. He had not the moral courage to ask MacIan if there had been a…
The Ball and the Cross - The Idiot - (2)
Turnbull thrust his first finger down the aperture, and at last managed to make a slight further fissure in the piping. The light that came…
A Riddle of Faces
Just behind him stood two other doctors: one, the familiar Dr. Quayle, of the blinking eyes and bleating voice; the other, a more commonpla…
The Last Parley
Turnbull walked away, wildly trying to explain to himself the presence of two personal acquaintances so different as Vane and the girl. As…
Dies Irae
As they advanced towards the asylum they looked up at its rows on rows of windows, and understood the Master's material threat. By means of…