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E. W. Hornung. Collected Short Stories
Collected Short Stories
Table of Contents
The Stroke of Five
The Cooeying Woman An Australian Legend
A Spoilt Negative
Long Jake’s Trip Home
The Bushman’s Hotel
His Last Chance
Miss Teague's Behavior
Thunderbolt’s Mate
The Romance of Sergeant Clancy
The Burrawurra Brand
The Man That Shot Macturk
The Stockman’s Cheque
Lost in the Bush
The Crimean Shirt
Buried Alive
A Villa In A Vineyard
A Lochinvar of the Old Man Plain
A Prisoner Of Power
Tuggenboonah Bill
The Best Of The Bushrangers
The Christmas Story
A Fallen Angel
The Flying Dustman
A Model Marauder
THE END
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E. W. Hornung
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I nodded feebly.
‘I thought so. I studied your face and head pretty closely with eye and glass during the evening. Your face is commonplace enough, but it is a wonderfully clear mirror of your mind. Your mental homage to—my imitator was, for instance, plainly written on your face. Then I studied your head, for, you see, you wear your hair closely cut. You are tenacious of life, and concentrativeness is very strongly developed. Is it not so?’
