Frontis--White Mice--I know the end is near, George Fort Gibbs, 1909

Frontispiece-illustration for the novel "the white mice:" author, richard harding davis; illustrator, george gibbs. The white mice are an organization of young americans pledged to succor and save people in distress. Two of them become interested in, and determined to save a political prisoner, general rojas, who is being slowly done to death in a dungeon of the castle at porto cabello. [caption: “what does anything matter, when i know—that the end is near!”]. Date: 1909.