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Project Gutenberg's Three More John Silence Stories, by Algernon Blackwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Three More John Silence Stories Author: Algernon Blackwood Release Date: January 9, 2004 [EBook #10659] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIES *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Dave Morgan and PG Distributed Proofreaders Three More John Silence Stories BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD To M.L.W. The Original of John Silence and My Companion in Many Adventures Contents Case I: Secret Worship Case II: The Camp of the Dog Case III: A Victim of Higher Space CASE I: SECRET WORSHIP Harris, the silk merchant, was in South Germany on his way home from a business trip when the idea came to him suddenly that he would take the mountain railway from Strassbourg and run down to revisit his old school after an interval of something more than thirty years. And it was to this chance impulse of the junior partner in Harris Brothers of St. Paul's Churchyard that John Silence owed one of the most curious cases of his whole experience, for at that very moment he happened to be tramping these same mountains with a holiday knapsack, and from different points of the compass the two men were actually converging towards the same inn. Now, deep down in the heart that for thirty years had been concerned chiefly with the profitable buying and selling of silk, this school had left the imprint of its peculiar influence, and, though perhaps unknown to Harris, had strongly coloured the whole of his subsequent existence. It belonged to the deeply religious life of a small Protestant community (which it is unnecessary to specify), and his father had sent him there at the age of fifteen, partly because he would learn the German requisite for the conduct of the silk business, and partly because the discipline was strict, and discipline was what his soul and body needed just then more than anything else. The life, indeed, had proved exceedingly severe, and young Harris benefited accordingly; for though corporal punishment was unknown, there was a system of mental and spiritual correc
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