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...Story. A mighty man, this Richard Hogarth, farmer, with brown skin, round brow, moles on his cheek, lips "negroid in their thick pout," eyes brown, bloodshot, "imperially large...
...Jews, driven from Europe, had taken England for their own. Baruch Frankl, "Jew of Jews," ordered his tenants to wear a fez with a tassel as Livery of the Manor. But Hogarth refused, and Hogarth's sister rejected Frankl's amorous advances. Things took place-Hogarth flogged Frankl; Hogarth was convicted, falsely, of murder; Hogarth was sent to Colmoor prison. Rebekah Frankl, beautiful, barbaric, with earrings as big as hoops, flung a red flower with a black heart of passion to Hogarth on his conviction...
...Hogarth, having solved the problem of the world's misery, decided that he was justified in leaving prison to set things right. Blasting the great bell of Colmoor with lightning from heaven, he escaped astride of its clapper when it was sent for repairs. The ship bearing the bell and Hogarth was wrecked, and he was cast up on the Cornish coast...
Having spent three years juggling with the world's finances, training armies, building colossal floating fortresses of impregnable steel, Hogarth blew up a few liners, destroyed the British fleet, established a toll (sea rent) on all passing vessels, finally took over England in the capacity of regent, in order to put into operation his panacea for the ills of the world-a system of land tenure by the nation, not by the individual. The Jews he commanded to return to Palestine...
Unfortunately, Hogarth still had his enemies. Two in particular-an ex-priest and a cockney murderer-had peculiar talents for turning up at the wrong time in the wrong places. At the height of his triumph, the murderer stabbed him and the ex-priest contrived to sink most of his floating forts. Hogarth fled for his life, his power tumbling in ruins about his head...