CHAPTER I
Robert Bunting and Ellen his wife sat before their
dully burning, carefully-banked-up fire.
The room, especially when it be known that it was
part of a house standing in a grimy, if not exac...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes excelled in creating terrifying psychological studies. Her interest was in character, and she effectively centered her carefully constructed plots around the ethical dilemmas face...
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