The Great Keinplatz Experiment1913 |
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Abaris Abercrombie Smith appeared asked Baumgarten Bellingham body chair chamber chance cried crystal set dark dead dear door Edward Bellingham Egypt El Kab Elise euchre experiment eyes face Falmouth fear feet fellow front Funchal gazed glanced glass hand Harvey Deacon Hastie head heard heart hour Hyksos Jack Cade John Moir John Vansittart Smith KEINPLATZ KEINPLATZ EXPERIMENT knew lady lamp laughed Lawrence Sterne light looked Madame matter McCarthy mind Moir Monkhouse Lee mummy neighbour nerves never night once papyrus passed Peshawur Professor remarked road round séance seemed seen shoulder shouted side silence Sir Dominick soul spirit stair stand Stangate staring stood strange student suddenly talk tell There's thing thought threw to-night told tricity turned uncon voice walked Weld Wiltshire window woman words young
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Page 216 - In front of him he could see the cosy red light of the windows glimmering through the foliage. He stood with his hand upon the iron latch of the swinging gate, and he glanced back at the road along which he had come. Something was coming swiftly down it. It moved in the shadow of the hedge, silently and furtively, a dark, crouching figure, dimly visible against the black background. Even as he gazed back at it, it had lessened its distance by twenty paces, and was fast closing upon him. Out of the...
Page 201 - Still at it!" said he, plumping down into his wonted arm-chair. "What a chap you are to stew! I believe an earthquake might come and knock Oxford into a cocked hat, and you would sit perfectly placid with your books among the ruins. However, I won't bore you long. Three whiffs of baccy, and I am off.
Page 207 - But that is childish. Why should I fear him, or any man?' 'I can't tell you. I can only entreat you to change your rooms. You are in danger where you are. I don't even say that Bellingham would wish to injure you. But it might happen, for he is a dangerous neighbour just now.' 'Perhaps I know more than you think,' said Smith, looking keenly at the young man's boyish, earnest face. 'Suppose I tell you that someone else shares Bellingham's rooms.
Page 162 - ... Curious Occurrence in the Louvre. — Yesterday morning a strange discovery was made in the principal Eastern chamber. The ouvriers who are employed to clean out the rooms in the morning found one of the attendants lying dead upon the floor with his arms round one of the mummies. So close was his embrace that it was only with the utmost difficulty that they were separated.
Page 211 - Now, then,' he added, as the medical student reappeared, 'let us do a sprint. It is well under a mile, and we should do it in five minutes. A human life is better worth running for than a pot.' Neck and neck they dashed through the darkness, and did not pull up until panting and spent, they had reached the little cottage by the river. Young Lee, limp and dripping like a broken...
Page 142 - Royal,' said one tourist to the other, glancing at his watch, and they clattered away, leaving the student to his labours. 'I wonder what these chatterers call an Egyptian cast of countenance,' thought John Vansittart Smith, and he moved his position slightly in order to catch a glimpse of the man's face. He started as his eyes fell upon it. It was indeed the very face with which his studies had made him familiar. The regular statuesque features, broad brow, well-rounded chin and dusky complexion...
Page 187 - ... sharp, rather shrill sound, like the hissing intake of a man's breath who gasps under some strong emotion. Smith laid down his book and slanted his ear to listen. There was no one on either side or above him, so that the interruption came certainly from the neighbour beneath— the same neighbour of whom Hastie had given so unsavoury an account. Smith knew him only as a flabby, pale-faced man of silent and studious habits, a man, whose lamp threw a golden bar from the old turret even after he...
Page 226 - 84. As Bellingham left the university immediately afterwards, and was last heard of in the Soudan, there is no one who can contradict his statement. But the wisdom of men is small, and the ways of nature are strange, and who shall put a bound to the dark things which may be found by those who seek for them ? THE LOS AMIGOS FIASCO. I USED to be the leading practitioner of Los Amigos. Of course, everyone has heard of the great electrical generating gear there. The town is...
Page 143 - The man turned abruptly and bent low over his polishing. The student gazed at him for a moment in astonishment, and then turning to a chair in a retired corner behind one of the doors he proceeded to make notes of his researches among the papyri. His thoughts, however, refused to return into their natural groove. They would run upon the enigmatical attendant with the sphinx-like face and the parchment skin. 'Where have I seen such eyes?' said Vansittart Smith to himself. 'There is something saurian...
Page 195 - It has been calculated that this sort of thing cost about seven hundred and thirty pounds in our money. Our friend was a noble at the least. What do you make of that small inscription near his feet, Smith?' 'I told you that I know no Eastern tongue.' 'Ah, so you did. It is the name of the embalmer, I take it. A very conscientious worker he must have been. I wonder how many modern works will survive four thousand years?' He kept on speaking lightly and rapidly, but it was evident to Abercrombie Smith...