Category: Short Stories

The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations

PROLOGUE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUS THE ENCOUNTER OF THE PAVEMENT NOVEL OF THE DARK VALLEY ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING BROTHER NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL INCIDENT OF THE PRIVATE BAR THE DECORATIVE IMAGINATION NOVEL OF THE IRON MAID THE RECLUSE OF BAYSWATER NOVEL OF THE WHITE POW...

Chapters

11. Part 11

My name is Leicester; my father, Major General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago to a complicated liver complaint acquired in the dea...

3. Part 3

A man came out of a rough-looking house and took the horses, and we found some fried steak and coarse whiskey awaiting us inside. I had come to a strange place. There were three...

5. Part 5

I must now give you some fuller particulars of my history. I am the daughter of a civil engineer, Steven Lally by name, who was so unfortunate as to die suddenly at the outset o...

14. Part 14

These minute instructions I took care to carry out to the letter. I confess that I walked up the Tottenham Court Road by no means blindly, but with an uneasy sense that I was co...

1. Part 1

PROLOGUE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUS THE ENCOUNTER OF THE PAVEMENT NOVEL OF THE DARK VALLEY ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING BROTHER NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL INCIDENT OF THE PRIVATE B...

6. Part 6

Yet, with, this image of mystery haunting my thoughts, I surrendered wholly to the charm of the country. Above the faded house on the hillside began the great forest; a long dar...

8. Part 8

Several years elapsed before I was enabled to add to the contents of the drawer; and the second find was in reality not a valuable one, for it was a mere repetition of the first...

7. Part 7

For the moment he put me off, but I returned again with the same question in the evening, and then Professor Gregg flamed with excitement. "Don't you understand yet?" he cried....

2. Part 2

Mr. Dyson, walking leisurely along Oxford Street, and staring with bland inquiry at whatever caught his attention, enjoyed in all its rare flavors the sensation that he was real...

13. Part 13

He had turned, without taking note, to the northward, and was passing through an ancient fallen street, where now notices of floors and offices to let hung out, but still about...

9. Part 9

"My dear sir," said Dyson, regarding Burton with a good deal of interest. "I agree most heartily with your opinions, but I really cannot share your wonder. Have you heard how mu...

10. Part 10

I think the most extraordinary event which I can recall took place about five years ago. I was then still feeling my way; I had declared for business, and attended regularly at...

12. Part 12

In spite of what Dr. Haberden had said, I went to him, and with tears streaming down my cheeks, I told him of all that had happened, and he listened to me with a face set hard a...

4. Part 4

Mr. Charles Phillipps was, as has been hinted, a gentleman of pronounced scientific tastes. In his early days he had devoted himself with fond enthusiasm to the agreeable study...