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The
Mystery of Angelina Frood
It takes a good
deal to surprise a really seasoned medical
practitioner, and still more to arouse in him an
abiding curiosity. But at the time when I took
charge of Dr. Humphrey's practice in Osnaburgh-street,
Regent's Park, I was far from being a seasoned
practitioner, having, in fact, been qualified
little more than a year, in which short period I
had not yet developed the professional immunity
from either of the above mental states. Hence
the singular experience which I am about to
relate not only made a deep impression on me at
the time, but remained with me for long after as
a matter of curious speculation...
The
Shadow of The Wolf
ABOUT half-past eight on a fine, sunny
June morning a small yacht crept out of Sennen
Cove, near the Land's End, and headed for the
open sea. On the shelving beach of the Cove two
women and a man, evidently visitors (or "foreigners,"
to use the local term), stood watching her
departure with valedictory waving of cap or
handkerchief; and the boatman who had put the
crew on board, aided by two of his comrades, was
hauling his boat up above the tide-mark...
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