Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories
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Chapters (23)
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- I. OCEANUS.
- OCEANUS
- II
- III
- IV
- THE SEVENTH MAN.
- THE ROOM OF MIRRORS
- A PAIR OF HANDS
- AN OLD MAID'S GHOST-STORY
- THE LADY OF THE SHIP
- FROZEN MARGIT
- THE SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF A SMALL FREE-TRADER
- THE MYSTERY OF JOSEPH LAQUEDEM
- PRISONERS OF WAR
- A REPORTED TALE OF ARDEVORA
- A PENDANT TO THE FOREGOING
- THE LADY OF THE RED ADMIRALS
- THE PENANCE OF JOHN EMMET.
- ELISHA
- "ONCE ABOARD THE LUGGER"
- WHICH?
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