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THE MIRAGE Helen awaited in her sitting-room the return of the carriage. It had been a great effort to let it go to the station without her. In fact she had ordered it to the front door, and put on h…
A FRIEND IN DEED Precisely how long she remained alone in her sitting-room, Helen never knew; but it cannot have been the long hours it seemed, seeing that Simpkins did not appear to fetch the tea-tr…
RONNIE FACES THE UPAS Ronnie had walked from his wife's sitting-room, along the corridor and into the studio, in a state of stunned stupefaction. He carried his 'cello in one hand, its case…
"AS IN A MIRROR" Ronnie returned to the Florentine chair, took the 'cello between his knees, placed his thumb behind its polished neck and his fingers on the ebony finger-board. He let…
"THE FOG LIFTS" When Ronnie came to himself, emerging quite suddenly from a long, confused dream, which had held many voices, many happenings over which he had exercised no control and whic…
"HE MUST REMEMBER" Dick arrived very early the next morning, having to be off again by the twelve o'clock train, in order to reach that evening the place where he was due to spend Chr…
"HE NEVER KNEW!" Ronnie saw Dick off by the mid-day train. After the train had begun to move, Dick leaned from the window, and said suddenly: "Ronnie! talk to your wife about her Leipz…
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR Ronnie caught the three o'clock train from town, at Huntingford, as the porter had predicted. No carriage was at the station, so he had a rather long walk from Hollymead t…
UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN Ronnie laid down his bow, and put his right arm round his wife. He still held the precious Infant of Prague between his knees, his left hand on the ebony finger-board. "M…
GOOD-NIGHT TO THE INFANT OF PRAGUE The last hour of Christmas Eve ticked slowly to its close. On all around grew that sense of the herald angels, bending over a waiting world, poised upon outstretche…
