title: The Cat of Bubastes, with eBook (Tantor Unabridged Classics)
author: G. A. Henty
description: Dubbed the "Prince of Storytellers" and "The Boy's Own Historian," George Alfred Henty is considered a Victorian literary phenomenon.
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  # Michael Strogoff
  
  
  ## or, The Courier of the Czar
  
  
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  ### Jules Verne
  
  
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  # BOOK I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  #### A FETE AT THE NEW PALACE
  
  
  "SIRE, a fresh dispatch."
  
  
  "Whence?"
  
  
  "From Tomsk?"
  
  
  "Is the wire cut beyond that city?"
  
  
  "Yes, sire, since yesterday."
  
  
  "Telegraph hourly to Tomsk, General, and keep me informed of all that occurs."
  
  
  "Sire, it shall be done," answered 