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Historic Oddities
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STRANGE EVENTS
BY
S. BARING GOULD, M.A.
AUTHOR OF "MEHALAH," "JOHN HERRING," ETC.
FIRST SERIES
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1889
| PAGE | |
| Preface, | vii |
| The Disappearance of Bathurst, | 1 |
| The Duchess of Kingston, | 26 |
| General Mallet, | 51 |
| Schweinichen's Memoirs, | 67 |
| The Locksmith Gamain, | 83 |
| Abram the Usurer, | 103 |
| Sophie Apitzsch, | 121 |
| Peter Nielsen, | 136 |
| The Wonder-working Prince Hohenlohe, | 164 |
| The Snail Telegraph, | 185 |
| The Countess Goerlitz, | 199 |
| A Wax and Honey-Moon, | 234 |
| The Electress' Plot, | 257 |
| Suess Oppenheim, | 271 |
| Ignatius Fessler, | 294 |
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