The Mystery of the Sea - Classic Reprint Author:Bram Stoker CHAPTER I SECOND SIGHT I HAD just arrived at Cruden Bay on my annual visit, and after a late breakfast was sitting on the low wall which was a continuation of the escarpment of the bridge over the Water of Cruden. Opposite to me, across the road and standing under the only little clump of trees in the place was a tall, gaunt old woman, who kept ... more »looking at me intently. As I sat, a little group, consisting of a man and two women, went by. I found my eyes follow them, for it seemed to me after they had passed me that the two women walked together and the man alone in front carrying on his shoulder a little black box-a coffin. I shuddered as I thought, but a moment later I saw all three abreast just as they had been. The old woman was now looking at me with eyes that blazed. She came across the road and said to me without preface: " What saw ye then, that yer e'en looked so awed ?" I did not like to tell her so I did not answer. Her great eyes were fixed keenly upon me, seeming to loo
Table of Contents
I Second Sight 3; II Gormala 9; III An Ancient Rune 16; IV Lammas Floods 23; V The Mystery of the Sea 32; VI The Ministers of the Doom 44; VII From Other Ages and the Ends of the Earth si; VIII A Run on the Beach 66; IX Confidences and Secret Writing 80; X A Clear Horizon 94; XI In the Twilight 104; XII The Cipher 113; XIII A Ride Through the Mountains 12a; XIV A Secret Shared 130; XV A Peculiar Dinner Party 138; XVI Revelations 145; XVII Sam Adams's Task 152; XVIII Fireworks and Joan of Arc 159; XIX On Changing One's Name 165; XX Comradeship 173; XXI The Old Far West and the New 180; XXII Crom Castle 187; XXIII Secret Service 195; XXIV A Subtle Plan 200; XXV Inductive Ratiocination 207; XXVI A Whole Wedding Day 215; ix; X; Contents; chapter; XXVII Entrance to the Cavern XXVIII Voices in the Dark XXIX The Monument XXX The Secret Passage XXXI Marjory's Adventure XXXII The Lost Script ; XXXIII Don Bernardino ; XXXIV« less