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Table of Contents
THE STEP
THE BED BY THE WINDOW
PROLOGUE
JAMES LAMP
THE DANCE
II
THE HANGING OF ALFRED WADHAM
PIRATES
THE WISHING-WELL
THE BATH-CHAIR
MONKEYS
CHRISTOPHER COMES BACK
THE SANCTUARY
II
THURSDAY EVENINGS
THE PSYCHICAL MALLARDS
THE END
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E. F. Benson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Then close at hand he saw the lights of the church, and there perhaps he could find sanctuary from it. The door was open, and he sprang up the steps. Close by there were lights burning on the altar of a side chapel, and he flung himself on his knees. Not for years had he attempted to pray, and now in the agony of his soul he could but say in a gabbling whisper, "O my God: O my God." Over and over he said it.
By degrees some sort of self-control came back to him. There were holy images, there was a sacred picture above the altar, a smell of hallowing incense was in the air. Surely there was protection here, a power that would intervene between him and the terror of that face. A sort of tranquillity overscored his panic, and he began to look round.
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