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Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. Q's Mystery Stories
Q's Mystery Stories
Table of Contents
THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF
THE BEND OF THE ROAD
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II
III
THE LAIRD’S LUCK
I
II
III
A PAIR OF HANDS
AN OLD MAID’S GHOST-STORY
THE SEVENTH MAN
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THE TWO HOUSEHOLDERS
Extract from the Memories of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman
CAPTAIN KNOT
SINDBAD ON BURRATOR
THE ROOM OF MIRRORS
A story of Hate, told by the Pursuer
THE MIRACLE OF THE ‘WHITE WOLF’
I. THE TALE OF SNORRI GAMLASON
II. PETER KURT’S MANUSCRIPT[1]
THE AFFAIR OF BLEAKIRK-ON-SANDS
SHAKESPEARE’S CHRISTMAS
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II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
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MUTUAL EXCHANGE, LIMITED
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II
III
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IV
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VI
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PHOEBUS ON HALZAPHRON
STEP O’ ONE SIDE
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II
III
IV
V
VI
LIEUTENANT LAPENOTIÈRE
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NOT HERE, O APOLLO!
A CHRISTMAS STORY HEARD AT MIDSUMMER
MY CHRISTMAS BURGLARY
Fantasia. From the Memoirs of a Pierrot
OCEANUS
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II
III
IV
WHICH?
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Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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‘Well, sir, they buried him three days after; and at first my father was minded to say nothing about his dream (as he thought it). But the day after the funeral, he met Parson Kendall coming from Helston market: and the parson called out: “Have ’ee heard the news the coach brought down this mornin’?” “What news?” says my father. “Why, that peace is agreed upon.” “None too soon,” says my father. “Not soon enough for our poor lads at Bayonne,” the parson answered. “Bayonne!” cries my father, with a jump. “Why, yes”; and the parson told him all about a great sally the French had made on the night of April 13th. “Do you happen to know if the 38th Regiment was engaged?” my father asked. “Come, now,” said Parson Kendall, “I didn’t know you was so well up in the campaign. But, as it happens, I do know that the 38th was engaged, for ’twas they that held a cottage and stopped the French advance.”
‘Still my father held his tongue; and when, a week later, he walked into Helston and bought a Mercury off the Sherborne rider, and got the landlord of the “Angel” to spell out the list of killed and wounded, sure enough, there among the killed was Drummer John Christian, of the 38th Foot.
