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The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown |
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"Major Brown, Major Brown, how did the jackal die?" Brown dashed out of the door and down the steps, but again he was frustrated; there was no figure in sight, and the street was far too long and empty for the shouter to have run away. Even the rational Major was a little shaken as he returned in a certain time to the drawing-room. Scarcely had he done so than the terrific voice came: "Major Brown, Major Brown, where did--" Brown was in the street almost at a bound, and he was in time--in time to see something which at first glance froze the blood. The cries appeared to come from a decapitated head resting on the pavement. The next moment the pale Major understood. It was the head of a man thrust through the coal-hole in the street. The next moment, again, it had vanished, and Major Brown turned to the lady. "Where's your coal-cellar?" he said, and stepped out into the passage. She looked at him with wild grey eyes. "You will not go down," she cried, "alone, into the dark hole, with that beast?" |
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