Midnight Webs

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Fenn George Manville. Midnight Webs

Story One: Smith's Ditty

Introduction. First Words

Story 1-Chapter I

Story 1-Chapter II

Story 1-Chapter III

Story 1-Chapter IV

Story 1-Chapter V

Story 1-Chapter VI

Story 1-Chapter VII

Story 1-Chapter VIII

Story 1-Chapter IX

Story 1-Chapter X

Story 1-Chapter XI

Story 1-Chapter XII

Story 1-Chapter XIII

Story 1-Chapter XIV

Story 1-Chapter XV

Story 1-Chapter XVI

Story 1-Chapter XVII

Story 1-Chapter XVIII

Story 1-Chapter XIX

Story 1-Chapter XX

Story 1-Chapter XXI

Story 1-Chapter XXII

Story 1-Chapter XXIII

Story Two: Aboard the Sea-Mew

Story 2-Chapter I

Story 2-Chapter II

Story 2-Chapter III

Story 2-Chapter IV

Story 2-Chapter V

Story 2-Chapter VI

Story 2-Chapter VII

Story 2-Chapter VIII

Story 2-Chapter IX

Story 2-Chapter X

Story 2-Chapter XI

Story 2-Chapter XII

Story 2-Chapter XIII

Story 2-Chapter XIV

Story 2-Chapter XV

Story 2-Chapter XVI

Story 2-Chapter XVII

Story 2-Chapter XVIII

Story 2-Chapter XIX

Story 2-Chapter XX

Story 2-Chapter XXI

Story 2-Chapter XXII

Story Three: Under the Tree-Ferns

Story 3-Chapter I. Port Caroline

Story 3-Chapter II. Night at a Convict Station

Story 3-Chapter III. Golden Gap

Story 3-Chapter IV. Anthony’s Home

Story 3-Chapter V. At the Farm

Story 3-Chapter VI. The Alarm

Story 3-Chapter VII. Besieged

Story 3-Chapter VIII. Tried by Fire

Story 3-Chapter IX. Cutting off the Retreat

Story 3-Chapter X. Amid the Ashes

Story 3-Chapter XI. In Pursuit

Story 3-Chapter XII. Rescue

Story 3-Chapter XIII. Wahika’s Stronghold

Story 3-Chapter XIV. Attack and Defence

Story 3-Chapter XV. Seeking Aid

Story 3-Chapter XVI. Collecting the Levy

Story 3-Chapter XVII. The Start

Story 3-Chapter XVIII. The Avengers’ Way

Story 3-Chapter XIX. Mr Meadows’s Weakness

Story 3-Chapter XX. Friends in Need

Story 3-Chapter XXI. Just in Time

Story 3-Chapter XXII. The Old Story

Story Four: Violets in the Snow

Story 4-Chapter I

Story 4-Chapter II

Story 4-Chapter III

Story 4-Chapter IV

Story 4-Chapter V

Story 4-Chapter VI

Story 4-Chapter VII

Story Five: Nil Des

Story 5-Chapter I. John Richards’ Housekeeper

Story 5-Chapter II. Under Temptation

Story 5-Chapter III. Tom Brough

Story 5-Chapter IV. Hopeless

Story 5-Chapter V. Mr Pash Looks Green

Story 5-Chapter VI. Hard-Hearted

Story 5-Chapter VII. May’s Marriage

Story 5-Chapter VIII. Can’t it be To-Morrow?

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I’ve waited these many years, expecting some one or another would give a full and true account of it all, but little thinking it would ever come to be my task; for it’s not in my way. But seeing how much has been said about other parts and other people’s sufferings, while ours never so much as came in for a line of newspaper, I can’t think it’s fair; and as fairness is what I always did like, I set to, very much against my will; while, on account of my empty sleeve, the paper keeps slipping and sliding about, so that I can only hold it quiet by putting the lead inkstand on one corner, and my tobacco-jar on the other. You see, I’m not much at home at this sort of thing; and though, if you put a pipe and a glass of something before me, I could tell you all about it, taking my time like, it seems that won’t do. I said: “Why don’t you write it down as I tell it, so as other people could read all about it?” But “No,” he says; “I could do it in my fashion; but I want it to be in your simple unadorned style; so set to and do it.”

I daresay a good many of you know me – seen me often in Bond-street, at Facet’s door – Facet’s, you know, the great jeweller’s, where I stand and open carriages, or take messages, or small parcels with no end of valuables in them; for I’m trusted. Smith, my name is – Isaac Smith; and I’m that tallish grisly fellow with the seam down one side of his face, his left sleeve looped up to the button, and not a speck to be seen on that “commissionnaire’s” uniform, upon whose breast there are three medals.

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“You’ve no idea,” says Harry, “what a nip it was. I thought it was all over; but all the same, the poor brute didn’t mean it, I’d swear.”

Next minute, Captain Dyer calls out, “Form four – deep. Right face. March!” and he led us to the gateway, but only to halt us there, for Measles, who was sentry, calls out something to him in a wild excited way.

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