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Title: Creep, Shadow!
Author: Abraham Merritt
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Language: English
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Creep, Shadow!
by

Abraham Merritt
CHAPTER I. FOUR SUICIDES
I unpacked my bags at the Explorers' Club gloomily enough. The singularly unpleasant depression with
which I had awakened in my berth the night before had refused to be shaken off. It was like the echo of
some nightmare whose details I had forgotten but which still lurked just over the threshold of
consciousness.

Joined to it was another irritation.

Of course I had not expected any Mayor's Committee to welcome me home. But that neither Bennett
nor Ralston had met me began to assume the aspect of a major tragedy of neglect. I had written to both
before sailing, and I had looked for one of them, at least, to be on the dock to meet me.