Edward Phillips Oppenheim

Name: The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX
Author: Edward Phillips Oppenheim

The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX (1920)

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“The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX”, published in 1920, is a work by Edward Phillips Oppenheim. It explores elements such as Dominey, Roger Unthank and the Black Wood.

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX (1920)

“ Dominey muttered. "I have hacked my way through some queer country in Africa."
"There's nowt like this wood in the world, sir," the old man asserted doggedly. "The bottom's rotten from end to end and the top's all poisonous. The birds die there on the trees. It's chockful of reptiles and unclean things, with green and purple fungi, two feet high, with poison in the very sniff of them. The man who enters that wood goes to his grave." ”

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX (1920)

“ So when the shooting party tramped into the hall that afternoon, a little weary, but flushed with exercise and the pleasure of the day's sport, they found, seated in a corner of the room, behind the great round table upon which tea was set out, a rather pale but extraordinarily childlike and fascinating woman, with large, sweet eyes which seemed to be begging for their protection and sympathy as she rose hesitatingly to her feet. ”

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX (1920)

“ Dominey said firmly, "within a very short time I am going to solve the mystery of this nocturnal visitor."
They returned to the house, side by side. Just before they entered, Dominey turned to his companion.
"Middleton," he said, "you keep up the good old customs, I suppose, and spend half an hour at the 'Dominey Arms' now and then?"
"Most every night of my life, sir," the old man replied, "from eight till nine. I'm a man of regular habits, and that do seem right to me that with the work done right and proper a man should have his relaxation." ”

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX (1920)

“ After I was married, the poor man nearly went out of his mind. He gave up his work and used to haunt the park here. One evening Everard caught him and they fought, and Roger Unthank was never seen again. I think that any one around here would tell you," she went on, dropping her voice a little, "that Everard killed Roger and threw him into one of those swampy places near the Black Wood, where a body sinks and sinks and nothing is ever seen of it again."
"I do not believe he did anything of the sort," Dominey declared. ”

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX (1920)

“ From the day she left until last night, so far as I can gather, nothing has been heard of this ghost, or beast, or whatever it is."
"That do seem queer, surely," Middleton admitted.
Dominey followed the tracks with his eyes to the wood and back again.
"Middleton," he said, "I am learning something about spirits. It seems that they not only make tracks, but they require feeding. Perhaps if that is so they can feel a charge of shot inside them." ”

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX (1920)

“ Such a spook is neither a credit nor a comfort to the family."
Their host spoke with such an absolute absence of emotion that every one was conscious of a curious reluctance to abandon a subject full of such fascinating possibilities. Terniloff was the only one, however, who made a suggestion.
"We might have a battue in the wood," he proposed.
"I am not sure," Dominey told them, "that the character of the wood is not more interesting than the ghost who is supposed to dwell in it. ”

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation — Chapter XIX (1920)

“ Middleton pronounced, with a little shudder. "When he do come out of that wood, he do call."
"Spirits," his master pointed out, "do not leave tracks like that behind."
Middleton considered the matter.
"They do say hereabout," he confided, "that the spirit of Roger Unthank have been taken possession of by some sort of great animal, and that it do come here now and then to be fed." "By whom?" Dominey enquired patiently. ”

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