The last test

EDITOR'S NOTE--Dr. de Castro was author with Ambrose Bierce of _The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter_. (At that time he used his full name, Gustaf Adolf de Castro Danziger, which...

Early in January an especially persistent young man from the _Observer_ climbed the moated eight-foot brick wall in the rear of the Clarendon grounds and began a survey of the v...

But he had time only to finish the sentence. Transformed by the insult to a sudden dynamo of hate, the slender scientist launched out with both fists in a burst of preternatural...

In the cavernous parlor across the hall, sitting alone in the dark a quarter of an hour later, Georgina came to her decision. Something was gravely wrong--just what, and to what...

"You think I'm talking nonsense. I wish I were, but the whole hideous mess is damnably real. I started out in life with a clean mind and purpose. I wanted to rid the world of fe...