The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen

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Doyle Arthur Conan. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen

I. THE BROWN HAND

II. THE USHER OF LEA HOUSE SCHOOL

III. B. 24

IV. THE GREAT KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT

V. CYPRIAN OVERBECK WELLS. A LITERARY MOSAIC

VI. PLAYING WITH FIRE

VII. THE RING OF THOTH

VIII. THE LOS AMIGOS FIASCO

IX. HOW IT HAPPENED

X. LOT NO. 249

XI "DE PROFUNDIS"

XII. THE LIFT

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Mr. Lumsden, the senior partner of Lumsden and Westmacott, the well-known scholastic and clerical agents, was a small, dapper man, with a sharp, abrupt manner, a critical eye, and an incisive way of speaking.

"Your name, sir?" said he, sitting pen in hand with his long, red-lined folio in front of him.

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"But it has some compensations," said the principal. "Surely you will allow that, Mr. St. James?"

"Has it? I never could find them. What do you call compensations?"

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