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"She cannot quit the earth, but must wander among the scenes of her misspent life."
Incense of Abomination
By SEABURY QUINN
salvation of one who had sinned greatly, yet was truly
repentant—a tale of Jules de Grandin
"...incense is an abomination unto me."
—Isaiah, 1, 13.
Detective sergeant Costello looked fixedly at the quarter-inch of ash on his cigar, as though he sought solution of his problem in its fire-cored grayness. "'Tis th' damndest mixed-up mess I've iver happened up against," he told us solemnly. "Here's this Eldridge felly, young an' rich an' idle, wid niver a care ter 'is name, savin' maybe, how he'd spend th' next month's income, then zowie! he ups an' hangs hisself. We finds him swingin'
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