The Mirror of Fear
Twenty-eight years before the story opens Major Chenilworth was forced to shoot a fellow officer in service with him in India. At the subsequent court-martial he was acquitted. He is now a n... Read allTwenty-eight years before the story opens Major Chenilworth was forced to shoot a fellow officer in service with him in India. At the subsequent court-martial he was acquitted. He is now a nervous wreck. An eyewitness of that deplorable affair now serves in his household in the c... Read allTwenty-eight years before the story opens Major Chenilworth was forced to shoot a fellow officer in service with him in India. At the subsequent court-martial he was acquitted. He is now a nervous wreck. An eyewitness of that deplorable affair now serves in his household in the capacity of butler. Jardyce, the butler, aided by the "Spider," a crafty old cripple of the... Read all