Strange Stories

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Allen Grant. Strange Stories

PREFACE

THE REVEREND JOHN CREEDY

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DR. GREATREX'S ENGAGEMENT

MR. CHUNG

THE CURATE OF CHURNSIDE

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AN EPISODE IN HIGH LIFE

MY NEW YEARS EVE AMONG THE MUMMIES

THE FOUNDERING OF THE "FORTUNA."

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THE BACKSLIDER

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THE MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE IN PICCADILLY

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CARVALHO

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PAUSODYNE: A GREAT CHEMICAL DISCOVERY

THE EMPRESS OF ANDORRA

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

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THE CHILD OF THE PHALANSTERY

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OUR SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS ON A GHOST

RAM DAS OF CAWNPORE

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"Only think," she said to her aunt, as they read the placard on the schoolhouse-board, "he's a real African negro, the vicar says, taken from a slaver on the Gold Coast when he was a child, and brought to England to be educated. He's been to Oxford and got a degree; and now he's going out again to Africa to convert his own people. And he's coming down to the vicar's to stay on Wednesday."

"Oh, James," Aunt Emily put in, "how can you talk such unchristianlike talk, setting yourself up against missions, when we know that all the nations of the earth are made of one blood?"

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The catechist's wife looked at her, and said, "Yes; the yellow fever."

And so she had. Even before she saw John the fever had been upon her, and that awful revelation had brought it out suddenly in full force. She lay unconscious upon the bed, her eyes open, staring ghastlily, but not a trace of colour in her cheek nor a sign of life upon her face.

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