The Blue Germ

from the table in order to get a box of matches to light a cig

s a crash of falling crockery. Then all became darkness. My parlour-maid found me lying face downwards on the hearth-rug ten minute

he could spare the time from his patients, and brooded over me. On the fourth day I began to move about in my bed, restless and muttering, and Hammer told me afterwards th

perturbable, insisted on complete rest, and I chafed under the restraint. I had only one desire-to get up, slip dow

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I answered. "I tell you the cat is a wizard.

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was happier then than I had ever been, for I had solv

h thing as blac

e the gloom and squalor of the city. The miracle occurred within a brilliant little circle of light, and I saw it with my eye gl

n aimless way with trembling fingers. My temperament is earthy; it had once occurred to me quite seriously that if I saw a miracle I would probably go mad under the strain. Now that I had seen one, after the first flash of realization my mind was listless and dull, and all feeling of surprise had died away. T

ssor Sarakoff. A month late