# The Stillwater Tragedy Author: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5435 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Stillwater+Tragedy+Aldrich&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary It is close upon daybreak. The great wall of pines and hemlocks that keep off the west wind from Stillwater stretches black and indeterminate against the sky. At intervals a dull, metallic sound, like the guttural twang of a violin string, rises form the frog-invested swamp skirting the highway. Suddenly the birds stir in their nests over there in the woodland, and break into that wild jargoning chorus with which they herald the advent of a new day. In the apple-orchards and among the plum-trees of the few gardens in Stillwater, the wrens and the robins and the blue-jays catch up the crystal crescendo, and what a melodious racket they make of it with their fifes and flutes and flageolets! ## Chapters - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stillwater-tragedy-5435/chapters/16/index.md)