In furtherance of this purpose I sent my wife and our friend to the theatre, a few evenings later, accompanying…
- Date of account
- Published 1920
- Source
- True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural
- Reference
- True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural · selected passage 40
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
In furtherance of this purpose I sent my wife and our friend to the theatre, a few evenings later, accompanying them to the railway station after extinguishing all the lights in the house in order to create the impression in the mind of any possible watcher of our movements that we were all three equally on pleasure be…
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyIn furtherance of this purpose I sent my wife and our friend to the theatre, a few evenings later, accompanying them to the railway station after extinguishing all the lights in the house in order to create the impression in the mind of any possible watcher of our movements that we were all three equally on pleasure bent in town, and returning by a devious route which finally brought me by a scramble over the orchard fence to the back door. I quietly let myself into the house, arranged an easy chair at a point where I could command the hall in both directions, and sat down amid utter darkness, with my revolver in my jacket pocket and my shot gun, heavily charged in both barrels, across my knees.
Historical context
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Modern context
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