Lot No 249, the Original Short Story
Author | : Arthur Conan Doyle |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 1512094463 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781512094466 |
Rating | : 4/5 (466 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lot No 249, the Original Short Story written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the dealings of Edward Bellingham with William Monkhouse Lee, and of the cause of the great terror of Abercrombie Smith, it may be that no absolute and final judgment will ever be delivered. It is true that we have the full and clear narrative of Smith himself, and such corroboration as he could look for from Thomas Styles the servant, from the Reverend Plumptree Peterson, Fellow of Old's, and from such other people as chanced to gain some passing glance at this or that incident in a singular chain of events. Yet, in the main, the story must rest upon Smith alone, and the most will think that it is more likely that one brain, however outwardly sane, has some subtle warp in its texture, some strange flaw in its workings, than that the path of Nature has been overstepped in open day in so famed a centre of learning and light as the University of Oxford.