Uncanny Stories

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Sinclair May. Uncanny Stories

Uncanny Stories

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WHERE THEIR FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED

THE TOKEN

THE FLAW IN THE CRYSTAL

THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE

IF THE DEAD KNEW

THE VICTIM

THE FINDING OF THE ABSOLUTE

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May Sinclair

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Then, gradually, the sense of danger began to wake in them. They lived in perpetual fear, face to face with all the chances of discovery. They tormented themselves and each other by imagining possibilities that they would never have considered in their first fine moments. It was as though they were beginning to ask themselves if it were, after all, worth while running such awful risks, for all they got out of it. Oscar still swore that if he had been free he would have married her. He pointed out that his intentions at any rate were regular. But she asked herself: Would I marry him? Marriage would be the Hotel Saint Pierre all over again, without any possibility of escape. But, if she wouldn’t marry him, was she in love with him? That was the test. Perhaps it was a good thing he wasn’t free. Then she told herself that these doubts were morbid, and that the question wouldn’t arise.

One evening Oscar called to see her. He had come to tell her that Muriel was ill.

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