Length3h 57m
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Excerpt: "The solitary ray of light that found its way into the dismal room seemed to shrink from entering. Silence reigned supreme within. Outside, even the stillness of the night was hardly broken. It was a ray of moonlight, as feeble through the misty air as "the glowworm's ineffectual fire." It found its way in, nevertheless, under one broken slat of a closed blind, and then it seemed to hesitate, losing life and shrinking from going farther. Was there a lost life within? The ray of light came farther and fell upon only one object in the room. All else was gloom and silence. It stood near the partly open window and the closed blinds. It was as motionless as a block of stone, as white as a figure of marble, as cold as a form of clay. Its covering of white hid it entirely from view, had there been eyes to see. It hung in flimsy folds on either side of the narrow, unpillowed bed. Now and then a breath of the night air stirred it, but only as if in mockery, and an observer would have shrunk and shuddered—lest its motion had been imparted by what it covered. It was the only sign of life amid the gloom and silence. Suddenly the stillness was broken, but only faintly. It was as if a bell tolled too soon the funeral knell. In some quarter remote from the dismal room, a clock struck the hour—three slow, mellow strokes of the bell."
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GenreLiterary Classics, Mystery and Thriller
Length3 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. AN OPEN QUESTION.
9CHAPTER IX. THE WOMAN INVOLVED.
2CHAPTER II. A CURIOUS CLEW.
10CHAPTER X. IN THE NICK OF TIME.
3CHAPTER III. THE EMPTY BOX.
11Sheridan of the U. S. Mail. By RALPH BOSTON.
4CHAPTER IV. MARKED IN DUST.
12CHAPTER I. THE BOSS DEFIED.
5CHAPTER V. WHERE THE TRAIL LED.
13CHAPTER II. SUMMONED BY THE BOSS.
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6CHAPTER VI. A THREATENING SITUATION.
14CHAPTER III. THE WIGGLING EAR.
7CHAPTER VII. SUSPICIONS VERIFIED.
15SUMMERTIME IN THE COUNTRY. By MAX ADELER.
8CHAPTER VIII. CHICK CARTER’S MISHAP.
16THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS.
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