Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
The position was this. My father was an engineer with a small, but apparently thriving, foundry at Derby. My mother died and my father sent me to Oxford, my younger brother, Bernard Carey, being an officer in the Navy. At Oxford, I was one of that perennial tribe of young asse...
The position was this. My father was an engineer with a small, but apparently thriving, foundry at Derby. My mother died and my father sent me to Oxford, my younger brother, Ber...
5. CHAPTER II"My missus," he said slowly, "has got the parlour behind the bar ready for your brother, sir. It is a snug, ship-shape little place, and we will do our best to make him comforta...
6. CHAPTER IIII had just finished my tub the next morning, and was about to shave, when there was a knock at my bedroom door. The school porter came in with a message--"the Doctor sends his c...
7. CHAPTER IV"This," said my brother, "is what is known as Charles Wheatstone's Cipher Instrument. It is a machine for writing in cipher. You see it has a sort of watch-face, which has the a...
8. CHAPTER VDoctor Upjelly returned on the afternoon of the third day after he left for London. Directly I heard his trap drive away and knew that he was in his study, I went into his house...
9. CHAPTER VIAt high tide, the Doctor's Hulk rose considerably _above_ the bank of Thirty Main Creek. It was three yards from the solid mud of the salting, and when the bridge was dropped on...
10. CHAPTER VIIThe reason that I was able to be out on the marsh at five o'clock without suspicion was that, early in the morning after my brother and I had overheard everything in the gun-pun...
11. CHAPTER VIIIIt was the weirdest hour, the strangest scene, that my eyes had ever looked upon. Snow was falling fast, and yet, somewhere above, there was a moon. It was all white and ghostly...
12. CHAPTER IXThe bees were humming through the orchard with a long, droning sound as I lay in the hammock of my old home, once more a careless boy. My eyes were closed, but the bright sun sh...
13. CHAPTER X"A little fresh air is clearly indicated," said my brother, "and after that, when I've attended to another little matter, a good breakfast. Some of us may be taking our next mea...
14. CHAPTER XICan you imagine a narrow belt of foam, rushing over the sea like a live thing with irresistible and sinister suggestion of _something_ terrible below? That is what I saw as I st...
15. PART I.--DORIS AND MARJORIE HAVE A LATE VISITORNOTE.--I have certainly written this chapter--with a pen, that is. Neither my brother's wife nor my own actually set down a word of the following. I am not responsible, and I wi...
16. PART II.--RETURN OF THE SEVEN HEROESIt was a tall man with black hair, dark eyes and a pinched face. His black, clerical clothes were rather rusty in the bright morning sunlight, though they were his best.