The Library of America • Story of the Week Reprinted from ... · mediately to the door, but poor Mrs. Stormer had passed into a state in which the resonance of no earthly knocker

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(The Library of America, 1996), pages 217–233. First published in the September 21 and 24, 1892, issues of the Illustrated London News

and collected in The Real Thing and Other Tales (1893).

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