# The Moving Finger

Author: Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips), 1866-1946

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30811

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Moving+Finger+Oppenheim&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Bertrand Saton leaned against the stone coping of the bridge, and looked downwards, as though watching the seagulls circling round and round, waiting for their usual feast of scraps. The gulls, however, were only his excuse. He stood there, looking hard at the gray, muddy water beneath, trying to make up his mind to this final and inevitable act of despair. He had walked the last hundred yards almost eagerly. He had told himself that he was absolutely and entirely prepared for death. Yet the first sight of that gray, cold-looking river, had chilled him. He felt a new and unaccountable reluctance to quit the world which certainly seemed to have made up its mind that it had no need of him....

## Chapters

- [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/36/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/34/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/35/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moving-finger-30811/chapters/10/index.md)