title: The New Savants: Surge of the Red Plague (Volume 1)
author:  Tim Flanagan 
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  # Doctor Therne
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### H. Rider Haggard
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  AUTHOR'S NOTE
  
  
  CHAPTER I. THE DILIGENCE
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE HACIENDA
  
  
  CHAPTER III. SIR JOHN BELL
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. STEPHEN STRONG GOES BAIL
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE TRIAL
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE GATE OF DARKNESS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. CROSSING THE RUBICON
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. BRAVO THE A.V.'S
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. FORTUNE
  
  
  CHAPTER X. JANE MEETS DR. MERCHISON
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE COMING OF THE RED-HEADED MAN
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. THE SHADOW OF PESTILENCE
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. HARVEST
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  Etext prepared by John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz
  
  
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  DEDICATED
  
  
  In all sincerity
  
  
  (but without permission)
  
  
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  MEMBERS OF THE JENNER SOCIETY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Some months since the leaders of the Government dismayed their
  
  
  supporters and astonished the world by a sudden surrender to the
  
  
  clamour of the anti-vaccinationi