This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH--IAWOKE to a strange feeling of unrest, to an imperative need for haste, for which I was at a loss to account. I lay stupidly blinking at the plaster ceiling until a door banged sharply downstairs. That told of some one's presence, though by the light of the fog-filled ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH--IAWOKE to a strange feeling of unrest, to an imperative need for haste, for which I was at a loss to account. I lay stupidly blinking at the plaster ceiling until a door banged sharply downstairs. That told of some one's presence, though by the light of the fog-filled square of window I judged it to be much earlier than my usual rising-hour. That curious sense of alertness continued. The old house seemed uneasy; the very air was electric, pregnant with possibilities. The corners of the room seemed to crowd toward the center. I felt nervous, smothered. Scarcely knowing why, I slipped to the floor and ran to the window. The next moment found me, face and palms flattened against the cold wire mesh, strained eyes staring ahead to the exotic growth sprung by our dreary little beach in the night. The fog was lifting, dissipated by the dawn wind. On all sides the water appeared to be steaming, and amid the fog wraiths, now shrouded by their ragged wisps, now half revealed as a current of air lifted them for a brief moment, rocked the strangest craft that had ever nosed its way into the dismal little bay. Time might have turned back four centuries. The ship was not unlike an old Spanish galleon, jutting high fore and aft. Her one mast had a crazy tilt forward; an enormous oar extended out at one side, like the lame flipper of a lobster. So high she rode that one looked with each oily swell to see her turn turtle, but always she righted herself, like a piece of cork bobbing on the surface of the water. She did this now, swinging half about with the turn of the tide. The growing wind blew the last obscuring mesh of fog clear and on each side of her bow I saw painted an enormous red eye, glaring inland. The sloping...
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