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F. Marion Crawford. For the Blood Is the Life and Other Stories
For the Blood Is the Life and Other Stories
Table of Contents
The Dead Smile
Chapter i
Chapter ii
Chapter iii
Chapter iv
The Screaming Skull
Man Overboard!
For the Blood is the Life
The Upper Berth
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
By the Waters of Paradise
Chapter i
Chapter ii
Chapter iii
The Doll's Ghost
The King's Messenger
THE END
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F. Marion Crawford
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Then something rapped at the window, and she felt her hair rise upon her head. She looked around in spite of herself. And when she saw her own white face looking in at the window, her own eyes staring at her through the glass--wide and fearful--her own hair streaming against the pane, and her own lips dashed with blood, she rose slowly from the floor and stood rigid for one moment before she screamed once and fell straight back into Gabriel's arms. But the shriek that answered hers was the fear-shriek of a tormented corpse out of which the soul cannot pass for shame of deadly sins.
Sir Hugh Ockram sat upright in his deathbed, and saw and cried aloud:
