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John Kendrick Bangs. The Pursuit of the House-Boat
The Pursuit of the House-Boat
Table of Contents
The Associated Shades Take Action
II
The Stranger Unravels a Mystery and Reveals Himself
III
The Search-Party is Organized
IV
On Board the House-Boat
V
A Conference on Deck
VI
A Conference Below-Stairs
VII
The “Gehenna” is Chartered
VIII
On Board the “Gehenna”
IX
Captain Kidd Meets with an Obstacle
X
A Warning Accepted
XI
Marooned
XII
The Escape and the End
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John Kendrick Bangs
Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq
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“I have made a hobby of the study of cigar ends,” said the stranger, as the Associated Shades settled back to hear his account of himself. “From my earliest youth, when I used surreptitiously to remove the unsmoked ends of my father’s cigars and break them up, and, in hiding, smoke them in an old clay pipe which I had presented to me by an ancient sea-captain of my acquaintance, I have been interested in tobacco in all forms, even including these self-same despised unsmoked ends; for they convey to my mind messages, sentiments, farces, comedies, and tragedies which to your minds would never become manifest through their agency.”
The company drew closer together and formed themselves in a more compact mass about the speaker. It was evident that they were beginning to feel an unusual interest in this extraordinary person, who had come among them unheralded and unknown. Even Shylock stopped calculating percentages for an instant to listen.
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