Strange Stories

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Allen Grant. Strange Stories

Strange Stories

Table of Contents

THE REVEREND JOHN CREEDY

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II

III

DR. GREATREX'S ENGAGEMENT

MR. CHUNG

THE CURATE OF CHURNSIDE

II

AN EPISODE IN HIGH LIFE

MY NEW YEARS EVE AMONG THE MUMMIES

THE FOUNDERING OF THE "FORTUNA."

I

II

III

THE BACKSLIDER

II

III

IV

THE MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE IN PICCADILLY

I

II

CARVALHO

I

II

PAUSODYNE:

A GREAT CHEMICAL DISCOVERY

THE EMPRESS OF ANDORRA

THE SENIOR PROCTOR'S WOOING: A TALE OF TWO CONTINENTS

I

II

THE CHILD OF THE PHALANSTERY

I

II

III

IV

V

OUR SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS ON A GHOST

Chemical Analysis of an Apparition

RAM DAS OF CAWNPORE

Footnote

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Grant Allen

Published by Good Press, 2021

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As he sat by her bedside sleepless and agonized, night and day for five days together, one prayer only rose to his lips time after time: "Heaven grant she may die!" He had depth enough in the civilized side of his soul to feel that that was the only way to save her from a lifelong shame. "If she gets well," he said to himself, trembling, "I will leave this accursed Africa at once. I will work my way back to England as a common sailor, and send her home by the mail with my remaining money. I will never inflict my presence upon her again, for she cannot be persuaded, if once she recovers, that she did not see me, as she did see me, a bare-limbed heathen Fantee brandishing a devilish tom-tom. But I shall get work in England—not a parson's; that I can never be again—but clerk's work, labourer's work, navvy's work, anything! Look at my arms: I rowed five in the Magdalen eight: I could hold a spade as well as any man. I will toil, and slave, and save, and keep her still like a lady, if I starve for it myself, but she shall never see my face again, if once she recovers. Even then it will be a living death for her, poor angel! There is only one hope—Heaven grant she may die!"

On the fifth day she opened her eyes once. John saw that his prayer was about to be fulfilled. "John," she said feebly—"John, tell me, on your honour, it was only my delirium."

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