![]() The Three Impostors is a convoluted tale about three individuals who we meet in the opening paragraphs who are searching for a "young man with spectacles" who has inadvertently stolen something of great importance to a secret society of which they are members. I only hope it was enough.'ĭyson leant back in his arm-chair, relit his pipeĪrthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a leading Welsh author best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was murder in the fellow's eyes as he went by, and I don't think there was much more than fifty seconds between the two. I can tell you, Phillipps, a fox-hunt is exciting enough, when the horn blows clear on a winter morning, and the hounds give tongue, and the red-coats charge away, but it's nothing to a man-hunt, and that's what I had a slight glimpse of tonight. I couldn't make out much feature, but I saw his eyes gleaming and his teeth showing, and he had an ugly-looking knife in one hand, and I thought things would be very unpleasant for gentleman number one if the second robber or what you like, caught him up. A man went by with a rush a few paces from where I was standing, and I felt uncommonly pleased that I was in hiding. I don't know why I did it, but as a matter of fact I dived down into the mews, or whatever it was, and stood as much in the shadow as possible. ![]() N I heard again that sound of dashing footsteps. ![]()
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