Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 / 2008-06-06 00:00:00
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DAVID POINDEXTER'S
DISAPPEARANCE
_AND OTHER TALES_
BY
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
CONTENTS.
DAVID POINDEXTER'S DISAPPEARANCE
KEN'S MYSTERY
"WHEN HALF-GODS GO, THE GODS ARRIVE"
"SET NOT THY FOOT ON GRAVES"
MY FRIEND PATON
DAVID POINDEXTER'S DISAPPEARANCE.
Among the records of the English state trials are to be found many
strange stories, which would, as the phrase is, make the fortune of a
modern novelist. But there are also numerous cases, not less
stimulating to imagination and curiosity, which never attained more
than local notoriety, of which the law was able to take but
comparatively small cognizance, although they became subjects of much
unofficial discussion and mystification. Among these cases none,
perhaps, is better worth recalling than that of David Poindexter. It
will be my aim here to tell the tale as simply and briefly as possible
--to repeat it, indeed, very much as it came to my ears while living,
several years ago, near the scene in which its events took place.
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