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The Works of Edward Everett Hale (3); Ten Times One Is Ten, and Other Stories
The Works of Edward Everett Hale Ten Times One Is Ten and Other Stories - 3 Author:Edward Everett Hale Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Little, Brown and company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Bo... more »oks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ten Times One is Ten CHAPTER I WHAT HAPPENED I SUPPOSE it was the strangest Club that ever came into being. There were these ten members I tell you of. And they have never met but this once, nor do I believe they will ever meet again. They met in the railroad station at North Colchester, waiting for the express train. The express train, if you happen to remember that particular afternoon and evening, was five hours and twenty minutes behind time. They knew it was behind time, but they had nowhere else to go, and it was then and there that the club was formed. For they had all come together at Harry Wadsworth's funeral. The most manly and most womanly fellow, he, whom I ever knew; the merriest and the freshest, and the bravest and the wisest; the most sympathizing when people were sorry, and the most sympathizing when they were glad. Thunder! If I were at home, and couldjust show you three or four of Harry's yellow letters that lie there, then you would know something about him. Simply, he was the most spirited man who ever stumbled over me; he was possessed, and possessed with a true spirit, -- that was what he was; and so he had guns enough, and more than guns enough, for any emergency. And Harry Wadsworth had died. And from north, and east, and south,-we ten there had come to the funeral. And we were waiting for the train, as I said, and that is the way the Club was born. Then and there it had its first meeting, and, as I say, its last, most likely. Bridget Corcoran may strictly be called the founder of the Club, unless dear Harry himsel...« less