The Room with the Little Door - Roland Burnham Molineux

Leslie Molineux

With

Reverence

Chapter		Page
	[Introduction]	17
I.	[The Room with the Little Door]	19
II.	[The Little Dead Mouse]	26
III.	[A Forbidden Song]	30
IV.	[The Murderers’ Home Journal]	34
V.	[Fads]	54
VI.	[The Mayor of the Death-Chamber]	62
VII.	[A Psychological Experiment]	67
VIII.	[Me and Mike]	79
IX.	[Old John]	82
X.	[Her Friend]	94
XI.	[Life]	97
XII.	[My Friend the Major]	99
XIII.	[A Dissertation on the Third Degree]	108
XIV.	[It’s Just Like Her]	145
XV.	[Shorty]	158
XVI.	[An Opinion on Expert Opinion]	180
XVII.	[Prologue to a Little Comedy]	195
XVIII.	[Impressions: The Last Night and The Next Morning]	197
XIX.	[Impressions: Dawn in the Death-Chamber]	208
XX.	[Impressions: While the Jury is Out]	211
XXI.	[Impressions: The Friendship of Imagination]	234
XXII.	[The Last Story]	241
XXIII.	[The Story of the Ring, by Vance Thompson]	243

Introduction

Most of the following is true, or founded on truth. A few are waifs—products of my imagination; little stories that came into my mind from time to time. Some of them are from letters written home while I was confined in the Tombs Prison in New York City, and in the Death-Chamber at Sing Sing.

In them I have not inflicted myself to any great extent upon the reader. Herein is chiefly what I saw when trying to look upon the bright side. There are also glimpses of the side which cannot be made bright, look at it as one may.

CONTENTS

Introduction