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Show TWO AUTHOR DTSTIRED ALTKB. Sir Arthur Conan Doris eno walked over the Oemml. He wss much Impressed by the desolst appearance of the lonely looking Schwarenbaca Ian. Hare. It seemed to him. wss sa Meal seen In which a novelist might beat, a etory of mystery and crime. 1 He proceeded to Invest story of mystery mys-tery end crlm ultsbls ts ths creepy environment. en-vironment. It waa a etory of murder, tha murder of a long lost ssa Just noma from the wars, by his own father, the needy Innkeeper, who did not recognise him until un-til after the deed was done, hut had resolved re-solved to kill and rok the first lonely stranger who - passed thst way . with money in his pocket. "The very thing," thought Sir Arthur: and he went down tha bill cheerfully revolving re-volving the morbid conception In hi mind. Then a strange thing happened. After dinner. In the hotel at Leu kerned, ker-ned, he picked up a volume of Maupassant's Maupas-sant's short stories and hs found that tha French author had not esly been to th Schwarenhach inn before htm, but hsd actually located there a story practically Identical with th one which he himself had Just devised. Travel and Exploration. |