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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE SHADOWLESS MAN

"THE WHOLE SWARM PROCEEDED IMMEDIATELY TO RECONNOITRE
ME AND TO PELT ME WITH MUD" _Frontispiece_
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"AN EXTRAORDINARY LOOKING OLD MAN LEFT ME THESE
PAPERS SAYING HE CAME FROM BERLIN" 2

FANNY 6

"I DREW THE ILL-FATED PURSE FROM MY BOSOM; AND IN A
SORT OF FRENZY THAT RAGED LIKE A SELF-FED FIRE
WITHIN ME, I TOOK OUT GOLD--GOLD--GOLD" 16

"AND TREMBLING LIKE A CRIMINAL STOLE OUT OF THE HOUSE" 18

"I SUFFERED HER TO FALL FROM MY ARM IN A FAINTING FIT" 28

"SHE ADVANCED FROM THE MIDST OF HER COMPANIONS, AND
BLUSHINGLY KNELT BEFORE ME PRESENTING A WREATH" 30

"NEXT EVENING I WENT AGAIN TO THE FORESTER'S GARDEN" 42

"SO SAYING HE DREW MY SHADOW OUT OF HIS POCKET AND
STRETCHED IT OUT AT HIS FEET IN THE SUN" 50

"ALONE ON THE WILD HEATH I DISBURDENED MY HEART" 52

THE FOREST OF ANCIENT FIRS 62

"WITH SOME HESITATION HE PUT HIS HAND INTO HIS POCKET
AND DREW OUT THE ALTERED AND PALLID FORM OF MR.
JOHN" 76

THE DREAM 78

"AND SO WAS OBLIGED TO CONTENT MYSELF WITH A
SECONDHAND PAIR" 80

THE FROZEN SEA 82

"AT LAST I SAT DOWN AT THE EXTREME POINT OF LOMBOCK
LAMENTING" 86

PETER AT HOME 92

THE COLD HEART

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DUTCH MICHAEL FELLING THE TREES 14

PETER'S DREAM 22

"HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH, THEY ASKED HIM" 24

"PETER MUNK! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE PINE GROVE" 26

"THEN IN A FLASH A MONSTROUS WOODCOCK SWEPT DOWN
FROM ABOVE AND SEIZED THE SNAKE IN ITS BEAK" 28

"YOU HAVEN'T QUITE HIT IT, CHARCOAL PETER" 30

PETER GAMBLING AT THE INN 36

"SO HERE WE ARE AT THE END OF IT ALL" 40

"THEN THE MONSTER STRETCHED FORTH AN ARM AS LONG AS A
WEAVER'S BEAM AND A HAND AS BROAD AS A LARGE
TABLE" 46

"AH, HAVE MERCY, GOOD LADY AND GIVE ME A DRINK OF
WATER" 58

"BUT SCARCELY HAD HE UTTERED THESE WORDS THAN THE
GLASS MANIKIN SUDDENLY BEGAN TO INCREASE IN SIZE
AND STATURE" 62

"AND AS HE PRAYED MICHAEL DECREASED MORE AND MORE IN
SIZE, FALLING TO THE GROUND" 68

"LOOK ONCE MORE AROUND, PETER MUNK!" 72