The Heath Hover Mystery
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Mitford Bertram. The Heath Hover Mystery
Chapter One. The Door in the Corner
Chapter Two. The Cry from the Ice
Chapter Three. The House by the Pond
Chapter Four. The Pentacle
Chapter Five. The Enquiry
Chapter Six “The Key of the Street.”
Chapter Seven. Interim – “Flu.”
Chapter Eight. Violet’s Discovery
Chapter Nine. The Arrival
Chapter Ten. Of the Brightening of Heath Hover
Chapter Eleven. A Slip on a Stone
Chapter Twelve. The Shadow in the Place
Chapter Thirteen. The Stone again
Chapter Fourteen. The Coming of Helston Varne
Chapter Fifteen. Overreachings
Chapter Sixteen. Another Light
Chapter Seventeen. Of some Talk on a Road
Chapter Eighteen. Shock – All Round
Chapter Nineteen. Interim – Quiet
Chapter Twenty. The Influence
Chapter Twenty One. The Disused Room
Chapter Twenty Two. The Sniper
Chapter Twenty Three. Camp – and a Conversation
Chapter Twenty Four. A Startler for Helston Varne
Chapter Twenty Five. Mervyn’s Dilemma
Chapter Twenty Six. The Dim, Mysterious East
Chapter Twenty Seven. The Vault of Doom
Chapter Twenty Eight. At Fault
Chapter Twenty Nine. The Valley of the Mud-Slide
Chapter Thirty. Envoi
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Every nerve rigid and tense Mervyn listened again. Yes – it was repeated. It echoed forth more distinctly now upon the dismal night, and it came from far up the great pond above. Quickly he rose and threw on a warm cloak, and as quickly reached the front door, turned the key, and went out. Somebody was in imminent peril – and then he remembered. The ice!
He sprang up the path stairway which led to the sluice, and even as he did so the thought flashed through his mind that he had been on the eve of falling asleep in his chair when the phenomenon of the door handle had befallen to start him wide awake. No more thought however did he give to this, as he reached the level of the sluice and looked out.
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“I must have been dreaming,” he said to himself, as he went upstairs to rummage out the towels aforesaid, and anything else that his new-found guest would be likely to need. “And yet – if that devilish rum optical delusion hadn’t come off – why I should have dozed on comfortably, and never have heard that chump’s shout for help. Well I’ve read of that sort of thing, but here’s a first-class case in point.”
But at this decision his meditations stopped short, and that uncomfortably. For the dread legends that hung around his lonely abode invariably had it that any manifestations within the same boded ill – were productive of ill – to the witness or witnesses thereof; certainly not good, to any living soul. Yet this manifestation – if manifestation it were – had been directly instrumental in the saving of a human life. And with this came another uncomfortable reflection – to wit, the proverb that if you save anybody’s life, he – or she – is bound to do you an injury.
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