THE ROOM IN THE TOWER
AND OTHER STORIES
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Mills & Boon’s New Novels
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THE LURE. E. S. Stevens.
THE DAUGHTER OF BRAHMA. I. A. R. Wylie.
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER. E. F. Benson.
A BACHELOR’S COMEDY. J. E. Buckrose.
THE PALACE OF LOGS. Robert Barr.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS. Jack London.
ASHES OF INCENSE. By the Author of “Mastering Flame.”
HIS FIRST OFFENCE. J. Storer Clouston.
THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE. Hugh Walpole.
THE BATTLE. Claude Farrere.
STORIES WITHOUT TEARS. Barry Pain.
THE FRONTIER. Maurice Leblanc.
THE MARK. Mrs Philip Champion de Crespigny.
THE GIRL WITH THE BLUE EYES. Lady Troubridge.
SONS OF STATE. Winifred Graham.
ENTER BRIDGET. Thomas Cobb.
THE THORNBUSH NEAR THE DOOR. Sophie Cole.
MEN AND DREAMS. Mary E. Mann.
THE WRITTEN LAW. Frances G. Knowles-Foster.
RUTH OF THE ROWLDRICH. Mrs Stanley Wrench.
THE PRINCE. T. Metcalfe.
THE SILVER MEDALLION. Percy J. Brebner.
THE PRINCE AND BETTY. P. G. Wodehouse.
ALIENS NEAR OF KIN. N. Vernon.
THE
ROOM IN THE TOWER
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
E. F. BENSON
AUTHOR OF
“THE ANGEL OF PAIN,” “SHEAVES”
SECOND EDITION
MILLS & BOON, LIMITED
49 RUPERT STREET
LONDON W.
Published 1912
Copyright in the United States of America, 1912, by E. F. Benson
PREFACE
THESE stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, so that, if by chance, anyone may be occupying in their perusal a leisure half-hour before he goes to bed when the night and the house are still, he may perhaps cast an occasional glance into the corners and dark places of the room where he sits, to make sure that nothing unusual lurks in the shadow. For this is the avowed object of ghost-stories and such tales as deal with the dim unseen forces which occasionally and perturbingly make themselves manifest. The author therefore fervently wishes his readers a few uncomfortable moments.