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Ten Minute Stories (1914)
by Algernon Blackwood
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TEN MINUTE STORIES

TEN MINUTE STORIES


By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
AUTHOR OF "JOHN SILENCE" ETC.



NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

First Edition
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February 1914
Reprinted
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February 1914


All rights reserved

PREFATORY NOTE

The Author wishes to thank the Editors of the Morning Post, the Westminster Gazette, and Country Life for permission to reprint in this volume stories originally published in their papers.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I.
Accessory Before the Fact
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1
II.
The Deferred Appointment
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12
III.
The Prayer
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21
IV.
Strange Disappearance of a Baronet
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32
V.
The Secret
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43
VI.
The Lease
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51
VII.
Up and Down
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59
VIII.
Faith Cure on the Channel
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69
IX.
The Goblin's Collection
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76
X.
Imagination
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88
XI.
The Invitation
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95
XII.
The Impulse
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103
XIII.
Her Birthday
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111
XIV.
Two in One
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116
XV.
Ancient Lights
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128
XVI.
Dream Trespass
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139
XVII.
Let Not the Sun——
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152
XVIII.
Entrance and Exit
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162
XIX.
You May Telephone from Here
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170
XX.
The Whisperers
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179
XXI.
Violence
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189
XXII.
The House of the Past
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202
XXIII.
Jimbo's Longest Day
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211
XXIV.
If the Cap Fits——
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219
XXV.
News v. Nourishment
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229
XXVI.
Wind
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238
XXVII.
Pines
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245
XXVIII.
The Winter Alps
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252
XXIX.
The Second Generation
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260


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