THE DOOM OF LONDON

Six Stories by

Fred M. White

Illustrated by

Warwick Goble

First published in Pearson's Magazine, London, 1903-4

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

 THE FOUR WHITE DAYS.

 THE FOUR DAYS' NIGHT.

 THE DUST OF DEATH.

 A BUBBLE BURST.

 THE INVISIBLE FORCE.

 THE RIVER OF DEATH.

 THE FOUR WHITE DAYS.

A Tale of London in the Grip of an Arctic Winter—Showing the Danger Any Winter might Bring from Famine, Cold, and Fire.

I.

The editor of The Daily Chat wondered a little vaguely why he had come down to the office at all. Here was the thermometer down to 11° with every prospect of touching zero before daybreak, and you can't fill a morning paper with weather reports. Besides, nothing was coming in from the North of the Trent beyond the curt information that all telegraphic and telephonic communication beyond was impossible. There was a huge blizzard, a heavy fall of snow nipped hard by the terrific frost and—silence.

To-morrow—January 25th—would see a pretty poor paper unless America roused up to a sense of her 

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