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Chapter I. Second Sight
Chapter II. Gormala
Chapter III. An Ancient Rune
Chapter IV. Lammas Floods
Chapter V. The Mystery оf The Sea
Chapter VI. The Ministers of The Doom
Chapter VII. From Other Ages And The Ends of The Earth
Chapter VIII. A Run On The Beach
Chapter IX. Confidences And Secret Writing
Chapter X. A Clear Horizon
Chapter XI. In The Twilight
Chapter XII. The Cipher
Chapter XIII. A Ride Through The Mountains
Chapter XIV. A Secret Shared
Chapter XV. A Peculiar Dinner-Party
Chapter XVI. Revelations
Chapter XVII. Sam Adams's Task
Chapter XVIII. Fireworks And Joan of Arc
Chapter XIX. On Changing One's Name
Chapter XX. Comradeship
Chapter XXI. The Old Far West And The New
Chapter XXII. Crom Castle
Chapter XXIII. Secret Service
Chapter XXIV. A Subtle Plan
Chapter XXV. Inductive Ratiocination
Chapter XXVI. A whole wedding day
Chapter XXVII. Entrance To The Cavern
Chapter XXVIII. Voices In The Dark
Chapter XXIX. The Monument
Chapter XXX. The Secret Passage
Chapter XXXI. Marjory's Adventure
Chapter XXXII. The Lost Script
Chapter XXXIII. Don Bernardino
Chapter XXXIV. The Accolade
Chapter Xxxv. The Pope's Treasure
Chapter XXXVI. The Rising Tide
Chapter XXXVII. Round The Clock
Chapter XXXVIII. The Duty Of A Wife
Chapter XXXIX. An Unexpected Visitor
Chapter XL. The Redemption Of A Trust
Chapter XLI. Treasure Trove
Chapter XLII. A Struggle
Chapter XLIII. The Honour of A Spaniard
Chapter XLIV. The Voice In The Dust
Chapter XLV. Danger
Chapter XLVI. Ardiffery Manse
Chapter XLVII. The Dumb Can Speak
Chapter XLVIII. Dunbuy Haven
Chapter XLIX. Gormala's Last Help
Chapter L. The Eyes Of The Dead
Chapter LI. In The Sea Fog
Chapter LII. The Skares
Chapter LIII. From The Deep
Appendices
Appendix A
Appendix B. On the Reduction of the Number of Symbols In Bacon's Biliteral Cipher
Appendix C. The Resolving of Bacon's Biliteral Reduced to Three Symbols in a Number Cipher
Appendix D. On the Application of the Number Cipher to the Dotted Printing
Appendix E. Page — Narrative of Bernardino de Escoban, Knight of the Cross of the Holy See and Grandee of Spain
I had just arrived at Cruden Bay on my annual visit, and after a late breakfast was sitting on the low wall which was a continuation of the escarpment of the bridge over the Water of Cruden. Opposite to me, across the road and standing under the only little clump of trees in the place was a tall, gaunt old woman, who kept looking at me intently. As I sat, a little group, consisting of a man and two women, went by. I found my eyes follow them, for it seemed to me after they had passed me that the two women walked together and the man alone in front carrying on his shoulder a little black box-a coffin. I shuddered as I thought, but a moment later I saw all three abreast just as they had been. The old woman was now looking at me with eyes that blazed. She came across the road and said to me without preface:
“What saw ye then, that yer e'en looked so awed?” I did not like to tell her so I did not answer. Her great eyes were fixed keenly upon me, seeming to look me through and through. I felt that I grew quite red, whereupon she said, apparently to herself: “I thocht so! Even I did not see that which he saw.”
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Here was indeed a case where Second Sight might be tested; so I asked her at once, though to do so I had to overcome a strange sort of repugnance:
“Could this be proved? Would it not be a splendid case to make known; so that if the death happened it would prove beyond all doubt the existence of such a thing as Second Sight.” My suggestion was not well received. She answered with slow scorn:
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