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# The Room in the Tower and Other Stories

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Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories, which were often first published in story magazines . . . His 1906 short story, "The Bus-Conductor", about a person haunted by a hearse driver, has been adapted several times, notably during 1944 (for the movie Dead of Night and as an anecdote in Bennett Cerf's Ghost Stories anthology published the same year) and for a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone. The catchphrase from the story, "Room for one more", created a legend,and also occurs in the 1986 Oingo Boingo song, "Dead Man's Party". Warning: template has been deprecated.
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER AND OTHER STORIES
BY E. F. BENSON AUTHOR OF "THE ANGEL OF PAIN," "SHEAVES"
SECOND EDITION
MILLS & BOON, LIMITED
Published 1912
Copyright in the United States of America, 1912, by E. F. Benson
Preface
THESE stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, so that, if by chance, anyone may be occupying in their perusal a leisure half-hour before he goes to bed when the night and the house are still, he may perhaps cast an occasional glance into the corners and dark places of the room where he sits, to make sure that nothing unusual lurks in the shadow. For this is the avowed object of ghost-stories and such tales as deal with the dim unseen forces which occasionally and perturbingly make themselves manifest. The author therefore fervently wishes his readers a few uncomfortable moments.
Some of those tales have appeared before in various magazines; the remainder are new. One, the story of “The Man who went too Far,” is the germ of what subsequently developed into a book called “The Angel of Pain.”
E. F. BENSON.

### CONTENTS

* page
* The Room in the Tower 1
* The Dust-Cloud 22
* Gavon's Eve 44
* The Confession of Charles Linkworth 62
* At Abdul Ali's Grave 87
* The Shootings of Achnaleish 107
* How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery 131
* Caterpillars 155
* The Cat 169
* The Bus-Conductor 192
* The Man Who Went Too Far 206
* Between the Lights 241
* Outside the Door 260
* The Terror by Night 273
* The Other Bed 285
* The Thing in the Hall 302
* The House with the Brick-Kiln 321
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# The Secret History

* Introduction
* Part 1 (I - V)
* Part 2 (VI - X)
* Part 3 (XI - XV)
* Part 4 (XVI - XX)
* Part 5 (XXI - XXV)
* Part 6 (XXVI - XXX)
* Appendices
# The Secret Key and Other Verses

THE SECRET KEY
AND OTHER VERSES
BY
GEORGE ESSEX EVANS
AUTHOR OF "THE REPENTANCE OF MAGDALENE DESPAR," AND "LORAINE, AND OTHER VERSES."
SYDNEY
ANGUS AND ROBERTSON 89 CASTLEREAGH STREET 1906
Some of these verses are taken from "Loraine"; many others, including the title piece and "The, Commonwealth Ode" have not previously appeared in book form. For permission to include such later verses the author is indebted to the proprietors of The Bulletin, Argus, Age, Australasian, Sydney Morning Herald, Courier, Queenslander, Toowoomba Chronicle, and Darling Downs Gazette.
This work is in the public domain in Australia because it was created in Australia and the term of copyright has expired. According to Australian Copyright Council - Duration of Copyright, the following works are public domain:
* published non-government works whose author died before January 1, 1955,
* anonymous or pseudonymous works and photographs published before January 1, 1955, and
* government works published more than 50 years ago (before January 1, 1974).
This work is also in the public domain in the United States because it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days), and it was first published before 1989 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities (renewal and/or copyright notice) and it was in the public domain in Australia on the URAA date (January 1, 1996). This is the combined effect of Australia having joined the Berne Convention in 1928, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.
Because the Australian copyright term in 1996 was 50 years, the critical date for copyright in the United States under the URAA is January 1, 1946.
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# The Seven Conundrums

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Seven unusual detective stories, linked by the aid of a vaudeville troupe and a mysterious leader who may be either supercrook or detective. —The Bookman, July 1923.
"So!" she whispered. "They will know from whom that rose comes". Frontispiece
THE SEVEN CONUNDRUMS
BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY WALLACE MORGAN
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1923
Copyright, 1923, By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published February, 1923 Reprinted February, 1923
Printed in the United States of America

### CONTENTS

Introduction
The Compact 3
Conundrum Number One
The Stolen Minute Book 15
Conundrum Number Two
What Happened at Bath 39
Conundrum Number Three
The Spider’s Parlour 97
Conundrum Number Four
The Courtship of Naida 131
Conundrum Number Five
The Tragedy at Greymarshes 167
Conundrum Number Six
The Duke’s Dilemma 205
Conundrum Number Seven
The Greatest Argument 243

### ILLUSTRATIONS

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# The Two Angry Women of Abingdon/The Pleasant History of the Two Angry Women of Abington

Each character speech has been separated from the next by a blank line for ease of reading.
PLEASANT
HISTORY OF
the two angry women
of Abington.
With the humorous mirth of Dicke Coomes and Nicholas Prouerbes, tvvo Seruingmen.
As it was lately playde by the right Honorable the Earle of Nottingham, Lord high Admirall his seruants.
By Henry Porter Gent.
Imprinted at London for VVilliam Ferbrand, and are to be solde at his shop at the corner of Colman streete neere Loathbury.
1599.
The names of the speakers.
The Prologue.
entlemen, I come to yee like one that lackes and would borrow, but was loath to aske least hee should be denied: I would aske, but I would aske to obtaine: O would I knewe that manner of asking: to beg were base, and to cooche low and to carry an humble shew of entreatie, were too Dog-like that fawnes on his maister to get a bone from his Trencher: out Curre I cannot abide it, to put on the shape and habit of this new worlds new found beggars, mistermed Souldiers, as thus: sweet Gentlemen, let a poore Scholler implore and exerate, that you would make him rich in the possession of amite of your fauours, to keep him a true man in wit, and to pay for his lodging among the Muses: so God him helpe he is driuen to a most low estate, tis not vnknowne what seruice of words he hath been at, he lost his lims in a late conflict of floute, a braue repulse and a hot assault it was, he doth protest, as euer he saw since hee knewe what the report of a volley of testes were, he shall therefore desire you: A plague vpon it, each Beadle disdained, would whip him from your companie. Well Gentlemen, I cannot tell howe to get your fauours better then by desert: then the worse lucke, or the worse wit or some what, for I shall not now deserue it. Welcome then, I commit my selfe to my fortunes, & your contents, contented to dye, of your seuere iudgements shall iudge me to be stung to death with the Adders hisse.
The pleasant Comedy of the two angry Women of Abington.
FINIS.
# The Two Angels

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# The Two Angry Women of Abingdon/Introduction

The
Two Angry Women of Abingdon,
BY
HENRY PORTER.
1599
From "Henslowe's Diary" and other sources, it would appear that Porter wrote several plays. The only one extant is "The Two Angry Women of Abingdon," now facsimiled from a copy of the earliest known edition in the British Museum. Another impression was issued the same year: of this there is one perfect example in the British Museum (Press-mark 162, d. 55) and two copies in the Bodleian.
The second of these was reprinted by Dyce in 1841 for the Percy Society; the first was used by Professor Gayley of the University of California as the basis of his text of the play in "Representative English Comedies" (1903). Dr. Gayley's "introduction" is the most important study of Porter that has yet appeared; no student can afford to neglect this critical essay, embracing as it does, all the discovered facts of Porter's life, a conjectural attempt at the identity of the man, his place in the dramatic activities of his day, together with a discussion of the vexed question of the lost parts of the Abingdon triad.
Mr. J. A. Herbert, of the Manuscript Department of the British Museum, after comparing this facsimile with the original copy, says that "it is for the most part excellent: slightly too heavily printed pages are B 1 verso, B 2 recto, B 4 recto, and C 2 recto."
JOHN S. FARMER.
# The Two Babes in the Wood (1828)/The Highland laddie

BONNY HIGHLAND LADDIE.
The bonniest lad that e'er I saw, Bonny laddie, Highland laddie, Wore a plaid, and was fu' braw, Bonny Highland laddie. On his head a bonnet blue, Bonny laddie, Highland laddie, His loyal heart was firm and true, Bonny Highland laddie.
Trumpets sound, and cannons roar, Bonnie lassie, Lowland lassie; And a' the hills wi' echoes roar, Bonnie Lowland lassie. Glory, honour, now invite, Bonny lassie, Lowland lassie, For freedom and my king to fight, Bonnie Lowland lassie.
The sun a backward course shall take, Bonny Laddie, Highland Laddie, Ere ought thy manly courage shake, Bonny Highland Laddie. Go, for yourself procure renown, Bonny laddie, Highlaud laddie; And for your lawful king his crown, Bonny Highland laddie.
FINIS.
# The Two Babes in the Wood (1828)

THE
TWO BABES
IN THE WOOD;
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
The Highland Laddie
GLASGOW:
Printed for the Booksellers.
1828.
* The Two babes in the wood
* The Highland Laddie
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# The Two Angry Women of Abingdon

The Tudor Facsimile Texts
The
Two Angry Women of Abingdon,
BY
HENRY PORTER.
1599
The Tudor Facsimile Texts
Under the Supervision and Editorship of
JOHN S. FARMER
The
Two Angry Women of Abingdon,
BY
HENRY PORTER.
1599
Issued for Subscribers by the Editor of
THE TUDOR FACSIMILE TEXTS MCMXI
* Introduction
* The Pleasant History of the Two Angry Women of Abington
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# The Story of the Golden Fleece

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See page 33.
THE STORY
of the GOLDEN
FLEECE
by
Andrew Lang
Illustrations by MILLS THOMPSON
PHILADELPHIA
HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY
Copyright, 1903, by
Henry Altemus
INTRODUCTORY
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# The Story of the Gadsbys/L'Envoi

L'ENVOI.
What is the moral? Who rides may read. When the night is thick and the tracks are blind, A friend at a pinch is a friend indeed; But a fool to wait for the laggard behind: Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
White hands cling to the tightened rein, Slipping the spur from the booted heel, Tenderest voices cry, "Turn again," Red lips tarnish the scabbarded steel, High hopes faint on a warm hearth-stone— He travels the fastest who travels alone.
One may fall, but he falls by himself— Falls by himself, with himself to blame; One may attain, and to him is the pelf, Loot of the city in Gold or Fame: Plunder of earth shall be all his own Who travels the fastest, and travels alone.
Wherefore the more ye be holpen and stayed— Stayed by a friend in the hour of toil, Sing the heretical song I have made— His be the labour, and yours be the spoil. Win by his aid, and the aid disown— He travels the fastest who travels alone.
# The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries

* Meynell, Alice (1917), "The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries" in A father of women, and other poems.
* Meynell, Alice (1921), "The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries" in Poems.
# The Two Women (O. Henry)

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THE TWO WOMEN
THE TWO WOMEN
The One: A FOG IN SANTONE The Other: A MEDLEY OF MOODS
By O. HENRY
Author of “Cabbages and Kings,” “The Four Million,” Etc., Etc.
BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1910 By Witter Bynner
Entered at Stationers’ Hall
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
CONTENTS
# The Two Soldiers and the Robber

Perry index 524
* "The Two Soldiers and the Robber", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
* "The Two Soldiers and the Robber", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
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# The Two Travelers and the Axe

Perry index 67
* "Two Travellers and a Bag of Money", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
* "The Two Travellers and the Axe", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
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# The Two Voices (Felicia Hemans)

* The Two Voices, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 24, 1828.
* The Two Voices, in Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems (Miscellaneous Poems), 1830.
# The Two Streams

Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides
Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall,
In rushing river-tides!
Yon stream, whose sources run
Turned by a pebble's edge,
Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun
Through the cleft mountain-ledge.
The slender rill had strayed,
But for the slanting stone,
To evening's ocean, with the tangled braid
Of foam-flecked Oregon.
So from the heights of Will
Life's parting stream descends,
And, as a moment turns its slender rill,
Each widening torrent bends, --
From the same cradle's side,
From the same mother's knee, --
One to long darkness and the frozen tide,
One to the Peaceful Sea!
# The Two Republics
## PREFACE

ROME, in its different phases, occupies the largest place of any national name in history. Rome, considered with reference to government, is interesting and important. Considered with reference to religion, it is yet more interesting and more important. But when considered with reference to the interrelationship of government and religion, it is most interesting and most important. It is Rome in this last phase that is the principal subject of study in this book. As in this particular Rome occupies on extreme and the United States of America the other, the latter is considered also, though the plan and limit of the book has made it necessary to give less space to this than the subject deserves.
The principle of Rome in all its phases is that religion and government are inseparable. The principle of the government of the United States is that religion is essentially distinct and totally separate from civil government, and entirely exempt from its cognizance.
The principle of Rome is the abject slavery of the mind ; the principle of the United States of America is the absolute freedom of the mind.
As it Christianity that first and always antagonized this governmental principle of Rome, and established the governmental principle of the United States of America, the fundamental idea, the one thread-thought of the whole book, is to develop the principles of Christianity with reference to ccivil government, and to portray the mischievous results of the least departure form those principles.
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# The Two Voices

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# The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)/A Seeker in the Night

A SEEKER IN THE NIGHT
I lift my eyes, but I cannot see; I stretch my arms and I cry to Thee,— And still the darkness covers me.
Where art Thou? In the chill obscure I wander lonely, and endure A yearning only Thou can'st cure!
Once—once, indeed, in every face I seemed thy lineaments to trace And looked in all to find thy grace:
I thought the thrush—sweet worshiper!— From the minaret of the balsam-fir Hymned forth thy praise, my soul to stir;
I thought the early roses came To lisp in fragrant breaths thy name, And teach my heart to do the same;
I thought the stars thy candles, Lord!— I thought the skylark as he soared Rose to thy throne and Thee adored!
​But now a labyrinth I wind, And needing more thy hand to find, Grope, darkling, Lord!—for I am blind!
Ah, bridge for me the awful vast, That I may find Thee at the last!— Then draw me close, and hold me fast!
# The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)/A Realm of Wonder

A REALM OF WONDER
Far off there is a realm of wonder,— Know you its name? No region the wide heavens under Could be the same! Dark orange groves it hath, and alleys With sunlit verdure covered over, High-mounting hills, great river valleys Enriched by crops of maize and clover: A Land apart, from all asunder,— Know you its name?
Walls hath it—two. One—of the mind, To the outside world forever blind, Itself within itself hath still confined; Wherefore its brooding and exclusive spirit Craves but for progress in experience sown, Noiseless as Nature's own; And with that reverence it doth inherit, Hearkens obediently its sages, Mysteriously wise from distant ages, And with unconscious, tireless sacrifice Creates a paradise.
​A paradise you say, Stretching away—and endlessly away!— A garden—lovelily abloom With rice and silk and tea, Cotton and yam and wheat, all fair to see, And breathing forth an exquisite perfume Of mingled mulberry and orange-blows, Azalea and rose: A garden, yet a tomb Where myriads, sleeping, are remembered still By myriads more, who glad their precepts keep, And honour them in sleep.
What centuries of industry speak here! What irrigating waters, silver-clear, Skirting the uplands, rise, tier above tier! What thronged canals, through the Delta plain extending Hundreds of miles! What junks, what bankside villages unending, What cottages with brown and green roof-tiles! What fanes! what wildwood temples without cease! What unperturbed tranquility! what peace!
Far off there is a realm of wonder,— Know you its name? No region the wide heavens under Could be the same!— ​So calm, productive, full of beauty; Unto contentment so inviting! A Land, through service and through duty, The past and future so uniting That Death itself may not them sunder!— Know you its name?
Back of the centuries its birth-hour lonely Men vainly seek: Of its beginnings legend only And myth may speak: Ere Greece of beauty dreamed, or Rome of power, In some mysterious, unrecorded hour, Darkling from hushed obscurity it sprung When the Nile gods and the Vedas yet were young.
# The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)/Base-Born

BASE-BORN
My parents had great joy, I wis, Of their young days of love. In thought they were as deathless gods, Mere human laws above: As deathless gods! But I?—alas! Of joy what can I tell? Who am but as a broken vase Beside a brimming well.
My parents in each other's eyes Beheld the heavenly stars, And found in one another's arms The bliss that heaven unbars: They vowed when pleasure brimmed the cup None should resist its spell: They quaffed,—and emptied me of joy, Beside life's brimming well!
# The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)/A Lover's "Litany to Pan"

A LOVER'S "LITANY TO PAN"
By the germinating seed And the blossoming of the weed, By the fruitage that doth feed,— Oh, hear!
By the light's reviving kiss, By the law that wakes to bliss Butterfly from chrysalis, Oh, hear!
By the raptures of the Spring, And the myriad flowers that bring Incense at her feet to fling, Oh, hear!
By the water-lily shrine And the syrinx that is thine, By its melodies divine, Oh, hear!
By the fragrance of the glade, By thy slumber in the shade And thy bed, of mosses made, Oh, hear!
​By the budding mysteries And leafy glory of the trees,— By the human eye that sees, Oh, hear!
By the wistful hopes that throng To thy chantry of sweet song, By our power to love and long, Oh, hear!
By the dawning's tender beam, By the twilight's westering gleam, By the soul's enduring dream, Oh, hear!
By the summer's ardent quest, And the balm of winter rest,— By the calm of Nature's breast, Oh, hear!
By the wonder of thy plan, By thy boundless gifts to man,— By thy deathless self, great Pan! Oh, hear!
# The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)/Against the Gate of Life

This poem was not included in Mrs. Coates' collected Poems (1916, in 2 vols.).
AGAINST THE GATE OF LIFE
TO HELEN KELLER
As mute against the gate of life you sit, Longing to open it, Full oft you must behold, in thought, a maid With banner white, whose lilies do not fade, And armor glory lit.
Across the years, darkling, you still must see, In the hush of memory, Her whom no wrong of Fate could make afraid— Of all the maidens of the world, The Maid!— In her brave purity.
For she, like you, was singly set apart, O high and lonely heart!— And hearkened Voices, silent save to her, And looked on visions she might not transfer By any loving art,—
Knew the dread chill of isolation, when Life darkened to her ken; Yet could not know, as round her closed the night, How radiant and far would shine her light,— A miracle to men!