A Tilt with the Muscovite
Written by
George Bronson-Howard
Copyright 1905
Originally published in The Popular Magazine in May, 1905. One of the stories in
Yorke Norroy is sent by the Secretary of State to Paris to meet with a M. Dumercier. That man knows the whereabouts and status of an inventor named Leo Gaylord who had been kidnapped by Russian agents and transported to Moscow. There he is being repeatedly tortured to get the details of a radically new and powerful rapid-fire naval gun capable of changing the balance of naval warfare.