A Bid for Fortune
by Guy Boothby
Richard Hatteras, while on holiday in Sydney, rescues a beautiful young woman who is in trouble, the beginning of a series of events that see her fall in love and increasingly involved in the intrigues of the shadowy Dr. Nikola, who will never give up on anything to steal her prize. Nicola of Boothby may be the world's first modern supervillain: a master of hypnotism and mind control, a telepathic master, and an astral projectionist. It can make ordinary people see the insults in the liquid deposits and predict the future. He is said to know the hour, the moment and the path of his own death.
