Widdershins

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Widdershins, by Oliver OnionsThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: WiddershinsAuthor: Oliver OnionsRelease Date: November 26, 2004 [eBook #14168] [Most recently updated: October 24, 2006]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WIDDERSHINS***E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamWIDDERSHINSbyOLIVER ONIONS1911 "From Ghaisttes, Ghoulies and long-leggity Beasties and Things that go Bump in the night—"Good Lord, deliver us!"NOTEI have pleasure in acknowledging the courtesy of the proprietors of "Shurey's Publications" by whose permission"The Cigarette Case" is included in the present volume. Also it has been suggested that a definition should be givenof the word that forms the volume's title. That word means "contrary to the course of the Sun."O.O.CONTENTSI. THE BECKONING FAIR ONE II. PHANTAS III. ROOUM IV. BENLIAN V. IO VI. THE ACCIDENT VII. THECIGARETTE CASE VIII. THE ROCKER IX. HIC JACETTHE BECKONING FAIR ONEIThe three or four "To Let" boards had stood within the low paling as long as the inhabitants of the little triangular"Square" could remember, and if they had ever been vertical it was a very long ...