The Mystery of Choice

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Chambers Robert William. The Mystery of Choice

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

THE PURPLE EMPEROR

POMPE FUNÈBRE

THE MESSENGER

THE WHITE SHADOW

PASSEUR

THE KEY TO GRIEF

A MATTER OF INTEREST

ENVOI

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The Purple Emperor watched me in silence. I cast again, spinning out six feet more of waterproof silk, and, as the line hissed through the air far across the pool, I saw my three flies fall on the water like drifting thistledown. The Purple Emperor sneered.

"You see," he said, "I am right. There is not a trout in Brittany that will rise to a tailed fly."

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"What for?" I said scornfully. "Don't try any cheap sleuth work on me! Speak up, man, what's the trouble?"

The Purple Emperor, who sat in the doorway staring at me, started to speak, but thought better of it and got up and went into the house. The gendarmes rolled their eyes mysteriously and looked wise.

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