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ID: 482937
Title: Stillwater Tragedy
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Narrator: Victoria Bradley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:58:24
Language: English
Release date: 07-13-17
Publisher: Bookwire USD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics
Summary:
The Stillwater Tragedy (1880) is a novel by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Excerpt from the book: 'The chimney-stack of one house sends up no smoke. Yet the carefully trained ivy over the porch intimate that the place is not unoccupied. The sun appears to beat in vain at the casements of this silent house, which has a curiously sullen and defiant air, as if it had desperately and successfully barricaded itself against the approach of morning; yet if one were standing in the room that leads from the bed-chamber on the ground-floorthe room with the latticed windowone would see a ray of light thrust through a chink of the shutters, and pointing like a human finger at an object which lies by the hearth. This finger, gleaming, motionless, and awful in its precision, points to the body of old Mr. Lemuel Shackford, who lies there dead in his night-dress, with a gash across his forehead. In the darkness of that summer night a deed darker than the night itself had been done in Stillwater.'
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