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	[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] began his career as story-teller by entertaining his fellow-schoolboys, so it seems appropriate that the only biographical discussion hitherto, until Geoffrey Stavert's ''A Study in Southsea'', received by what now appears to have been his first novel, should be so cheerfully Philistine a schoolboy response. [[Hesketh Pearson]] did tackle it, which is more than can be said for the rest of us; he confused remarks of its chief narrator, [[John Fothergill West]], with judgments by its author, which was characteristic of him; he ascribed its composition vaguely to the late 1880s, which was consistent with the external evidence available to him, and its publication lazily to the mid-1890s, which was not; he was amusing; and he was unfair. It seems to require some sort of appropriate chorus: 'Ha, ha, ha!' 'Well tried, Parson!' 'Pretty good, you fellows, what?' 'Kick Pearson, somebody.' 'Yaroop!'		[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] began his career as story-teller by entertaining his fellow-schoolboys, so it seems appropriate that the only biographical discussion hitherto, until Geoffrey Stavert's ''A Study in Southsea'', received by what now appears to have been his first novel, should be so cheerfully Philistine a schoolboy response. [[Hesketh Pearson]] did tackle it, which is more than can be said for the rest of us; he confused remarks of its chief narrator, [[John Fothergill West]], with judgments by its author, which was characteristic of him; he ascribed its composition vaguely to the late 1880s, which was consistent with the external evidence available to him, and its publication lazily to the mid-1890s, which was not; he was amusing; and he was unfair. It seems to require some sort of appropriate chorus: 'Ha, ha, ha!' 'Well tried, Parson!' 'Pretty good, you fellows, what?' 'Kick Pearson, somebody.' 'Yaroop!'

	[[The Mystery of Cloomber]] was first serialised in the Pall Mall Budget starting in August 1888, then in the Pall Mall Gazette in September 1888, and published in book form by Ward and Downey on 17-31 December 1888. These data are self-evidently from the invaluable [[Richard Lancelyn Green]] and [[John Michael Gibson]], [[A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle]], pp.12-15. They state it was 'written between April and July 1888', possibly from its mention in an undated letter from [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|ACD]] to his mother mentioning the need to copyright [[Micah Clarke]]; that letter, in the [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] MSS now closed to the public pending legal arbitration, is quoted only in fragment by [[John Dickson Carr]] and [[Pierre Weil-Nordon]], without further discussion of the book. The allusion would seem in fact to be Cloomber's preparation for publication. Internal and external evidence argue for a much earlier date for its composition, so much so that I conclude it antedates all of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s other novels including The Firm of Girdlestone (which the bibliographers tell us 'The author began writing ... at the beginning of 1884. . . and had finished... by November 1885' (ibid., p.33).)		[[The Mystery of Cloomber]] was first serialised in the Pall Mall Budget starting in August 1888, then in the Pall Mall Gazette in September 1888, and published in book form by Ward and Downey on 17-31 December 1888. These data are self-evidently from the invaluable [[Richard Lancelyn Green]] and John Michael Gibson, ''A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle'', pp.12-15. They state it was 'written between April and July 1888', possibly from its mention in an undated letter from [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|ACD]] to his mother mentioning the need to copyright [[Micah Clarke]]; that letter, in the [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] MSS now closed to the public pending legal arbitration, is quoted only in fragment by [[John Dickson Carr]] and [[Pierre Weil-Nordon]], without further discussion of the book. The allusion would seem in fact to be Cloomber's preparation for publication. Internal and external evidence argue for a much earlier date for its composition, so much so that I conclude it antedates all of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s other novels including The Firm of Girdlestone (which the bibliographers tell us 'The author began writing ... at the beginning of 1884 ... and had finished ... by November 1885' (ibid., p.33).)

	The textual variations of [[The Mystery of Cloomber]] have hitherto received no discussion known to me in any public print, but there appear to be three distinct phases:		The textual variations of [[The Mystery of Cloomber]] have hitherto received no discussion known to me in any public print, but there appear to be three distinct phases:
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	: ''I, [[John Fothergill West]], can confidently answer that science is wrong and invite the reader's attention to that pithy, if disrespectful, aphorism of Baron Hellenbach which I have placed at the head of my narrative.''		: ''I, John Fothergill West, can confidently answer that science is wrong and invite the reader's attention to that pithy, if disrespectful, aphorism of Baron Hellenbach which I have placed at the head of my narrative.''


	The main text is followed by 'The Occult Philosophy, an addendum by Mr [[Mordaunt Heatherstone]].'		The main text is followed by 'The Occult Philosophy, an addendum by Mr Mordaunt Heatherstone.'

	(b) The Ward and Downey text. This omits the epigraph at all points, and the above-quoted sentence is altered from 'that pithy' to 'a pithy' and ends after 'Hellenbach'. A new chapter is included, 'Statement of [[Israel Stakes]]', preceding the chapter 'Narrative of [[John Easterling]], F.R.C.P. Edin.'. This necessitated the alteration of the preceding chapter supposedly by [[John Fothergill West]] from the sentence with which it ended:		(b) The Ward and Downey text. This omits the epigraph at all points, and the above-quoted sentence is altered from 'that pithy' to 'a pithy' and ends after 'Hellenbach'. A new chapter is included, 'Statement of Israel Stakes', preceding the chapter 'Narrative of John Easterling, F.R.C.P. Edin.'. This necessitated the alteration of the preceding chapter supposedly by John Fothergill West from the sentence with which it ended:

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	: '' 'There's ane thing that I havena spoken aboot yet, but that should be set doon' ''		: '' 'There's ane thing that I havena spoken aboot yet, but that should be set doon' ''
	: ''' 'Statement of Israel Stakes' '''		:: ''' 'Statement of Israel Stakes' '''
	:: ''[[The Mystery of Cloomber]]''		:: ''[[The Mystery of Cloomber]]''

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	: '' 'There's ane thing that I havena spoken aboot yet, but that should be set doon' ''		: '' 'There's ane thing that I havena spoken aboot yet, but that should be set doon' ''
	: ''' 'Statement of Israel Stakes' '''		: ''' 'Statement of Israel Stakes' '''
	: ''[[The Mystery of Cloomber]]''		:: ''[[The Mystery of Cloomber]]''


	: ''It's no go the Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky''		: ''It's no go the Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky''
	: '''Louis MacNeice''', ''Bagpipe Music'' (1937)		:: '''Louis MacNeice''', ''Bagpipe Music'' (1937)


	: ''Doyle then moved on to Buddhism, and showed what its devotees could do in [[The Mystery of Cloomber]]. The scientist, says he, should 'look to the East, from which all great movements come', where the savants are many thousand years ahead of him in all the essentials of knowledge'; and he concludes that 'the occult philosophy has been the work of the very cream of humanity.' After reading the novel some readers would prefer a philosophy that comes from the very beer of humanity. Briefly, an English officer, in the course of his duty in the East, kills a Buddhist holy man. From that moment he is doomed, and spends the rest of his life fleeing and hiding from the other holy men who are on his track and who at intervals convey to him by signals that he cannot escape his fate. At last they come for him in a boat which is conveniently wrecked on the lonely bit of Scottish coast where he has fortified himself in a large house, the implication being that Buddhist holy men can create a storm at sea as easy as winking. He makes no resistance, follows them obediently, and comes to a sticky end in a bog. The chronicler is not in a position to inform us whether the soldier's last regrets were that he failed to make a clean sweep of holy men while serving in the East.''		: ''Doyle then moved on to Buddhism, and showed what its devotees could do in [[The Mystery of Cloomber]]. The scientist, says he, should 'look to the East, from which all great movements come', where the savants are many thousand years ahead of him in all the essentials of knowledge'; and he concludes that 'the occult philosophy has been the work of the very cream of humanity.' After reading the novel some readers would prefer a philosophy that comes from the very beer of humanity. Briefly, an English officer, in the course of his duty in the East, kills a Buddhist holy man. From that moment he is doomed, and spends the rest of his life fleeing and hiding from the other holy men who are on his track and who at intervals convey to him by signals that he cannot escape his fate. At last they come for him in a boat which is conveniently wrecked on the lonely bit of Scottish coast where he has fortified himself in a large house, the implication being that Buddhist holy men can create a storm at sea as easy as winking. He makes no resistance, follows them obediently, and comes to a sticky end in a bog. The chronicler is not in a position to inform us whether the soldier's last regrets were that he failed to make a clean sweep of holy men while serving in the East.''
	: '''[[Hesketh Pearson]]'''		:: '''[[Hesketh Pearson]]'''
	: [[Conan Doyle, His Life and Art]] (1943)		:: [[Conan Doyle: His Life and Art\|Conan Doyle, His Life and Art]] (1943)


	[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] began his career as story-teller by entertaining his fellow-schoolboys, so it seems appropriate that the only biographical discussion hitherto, until [[Geoffrey Stavert]]'s [[A Study in Southsea]], received by what now appears to have been his first novel, should be so cheerfully Philistine a schoolboy response. [[Hesketh Pearson]] did tackle it, which is more than can be said for the rest of us; he confused remarks of its chief narrator, [[John Fothergill West]], with judgments by its author, which was characteristic of him; he ascribed its composition vaguely to the late 1880s, which was consistent with the external evidence available to him, and its publication lazily to the mid-1890s, which was not; he was amusing; and he was unfair. It seems to require some sort of appropriate chorus: 'Ha, ha, ha!' 'Well tried, Parson!' 'Pretty good, you fellows, what?' 'Kick Pearson, somebody.' 'Yaroop!'		[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] began his career as story-teller by entertaining his fellow-schoolboys, so it seems appropriate that the only biographical discussion hitherto, until Geoffrey Stavert's ''A Study in Southsea'', received by what now appears to have been his first novel, should be so cheerfully Philistine a schoolboy response. [[Hesketh Pearson]] did tackle it, which is more than can be said for the rest of us; he confused remarks of its chief narrator, [[John Fothergill West]], with judgments by its author, which was characteristic of him; he ascribed its composition vaguely to the late 1880s, which was consistent with the external evidence available to him, and its publication lazily to the mid-1890s, which was not; he was amusing; and he was unfair. It seems to require some sort of appropriate chorus: 'Ha, ha, ha!' 'Well tried, Parson!' 'Pretty good, you fellows, what?' 'Kick Pearson, somebody.' 'Yaroop!'

	[[The Mystery of Cloomber]] was first serialised in the Pall Mall Budget starting in August 1888, then in the Pall Mall Gazette in September 1888, and published in book form by Ward and Downey on 17-31 December 1888. These data are self-evidently from the invaluable [[Richard Lancelyn Green]] and [[John Michael Gibson]], [[A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle]], pp.12-15. They state it was 'written between April and July 1888', possibly from its mention in an undated letter from [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|ACD]] to his mother mentioning the need to copyright [[Micah Clarke]]; that letter, in the [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] MSS now closed to the public pending legal arbitration, is quoted only in fragment by [[John Dickson Carr]] and [[Pierre Weil-Nordon]], without further discussion of the book. The allusion would seem in fact to be Cloomber's preparation for publication. Internal and external evidence argue for a much earlier date for its composition, so much so that I conclude it antedates all of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s other novels including The Firm of Girdlestone (which the bibliographers tell us 'The author began writing ... at the beginning of 1884. . . and had finished... by November 1885' (ibid., p.33).)		[[The Mystery of Cloomber]] was first serialised in the Pall Mall Budget starting in August 1888, then in the Pall Mall Gazette in September 1888, and published in book form by Ward and Downey on 17-31 December 1888. These data are self-evidently from the invaluable [[Richard Lancelyn Green]] and [[John Michael Gibson]], [[A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle]], pp.12-15. They state it was 'written between April and July 1888', possibly from its mention in an undated letter from [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|ACD]] to his mother mentioning the need to copyright [[Micah Clarke]]; that letter, in the [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] MSS now closed to the public pending legal arbitration, is quoted only in fragment by [[John Dickson Carr]] and [[Pierre Weil-Nordon]], without further discussion of the book. The allusion would seem in fact to be Cloomber's preparation for publication. Internal and external evidence argue for a much earlier date for its composition, so much so that I conclude it antedates all of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s other novels including The Firm of Girdlestone (which the bibliographers tell us 'The author began writing ... at the beginning of 1884. . . and had finished... by November 1885' (ibid., p.33).)

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			\|summary=A scholarly analysis arguing that The Mystery of Cloomber was written much earlier than usually believed, likely in 1882-1883 rather than 1888. The article traces textual revisions, narrative technique, biographical context, and thematic evolution to situate the novel within Arthur Conan Doyle's artistic development.
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	''The Mystery of The Mystery of Cloomber'' is an article written by [[Owen Dudley Edwards]] published in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 2, No. 2) in autumn 1991.		''The Mystery of The Mystery of Cloomber'' is an article written by [[Owen Dudley Edwards]] published in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 2, No. 2) in autumn 1991.

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 : ''[[The Mystery of Cloomber]]''
 : ''It's no go the Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky''
-: '''[[Louis MacNeice]]''', ''Bagpipe Music'' (1937)
+: '''Louis MacNeice''', ''Bagpipe Music'' (1937)

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	: As I returned over the moors in the evening, the wind was blowing in short, angry puffs, and the western horizon was heaped with sombre clouds which stretched their long, ragged tentacles right up to the zenith.		: As I returned over the moors in the evening, the wind was blowing in short, angry puffs, and the western horizon was heaped with sombre clouds which stretched their long, ragged tentacles right up to the zenith.
	: Against their dark background one or two livid, sulphur-coloured splotches showed up malignant and menacing, while the surface of the sea had changed from the appearance of burnished quick-silver to that of ground glass. A low, moaning sound rose up from the ocean as if it knew that trouble was in store for it...		: Against their dark background one or two livid, sulphur-coloured splotches showed up malignant and menacing, while the surface of the sea had changed from the appearance of burnished quick-silver to that of ground glass. A low, moaning sound rose up from the ocean as if it knew that trouble was in store for it...
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	: Suddenly, however, a light glimmered in the heart of the tempest, and next instant the beach and sea and wide, tossing bay were brilliantly illuminated by the wild glare of a signal light.		: Suddenly, however, a light glimmered in the heart of the tempest, and next instant the beach and sea and wide, tossing bay were brilliantly illuminated by the wild glare of a signal light.
	: The ship lay on her beam-ends right in the centre of the terrible reef, hurled over to such an angle that I could see all the planking of her deck. ...		: The ship lay on her beam-ends right in the centre of the terrible reef, hurled over to such an angle that I could see all the planking of her deck. ...
	\|style="width:50%; vertical-align:top;"\| '''[[The Man from Archangel]] Paragraphs 8ff.'''		\|style="width:50%; vertical-align:top;"\| '''[[The Man from Archangel]]<br/>Paragraphs 8ff.'''
	: The sun sank down in the west behind a line of purple clouds, and the smooth surface of the bay was gashed with scarlet streaks. Along the beach the pools left by the tide showed up like gouts of blood against the yellow sand, as if some wounded giant had toilfully passed that way, and had left these red traces of his grievous hurt behind him. As the darkness closed in, certain ragged clouds which had lain low on the eastern horizon coalesced and formed a great irregular cumulus. The glass was still low, and I knew that there was mischief brewing. About nine o'clock a dull moaning sound came up from the sea, as from a creature who, much harassed, learns that the hour of suffering has come round again. At ten a sharp breeze sprang up from the eastward. At eleven it had increased to a gale, and by midnight the most furious storm was raging which I ever remember upon that weather-beaten coast.		: The sun sank down in the west behind a line of purple clouds, and the smooth surface of the bay was gashed with scarlet streaks. Along the beach the pools left by the tide showed up like gouts of blood against the yellow sand, as if some wounded giant had toilfully passed that way, and had left these red traces of his grievous hurt behind him. As the darkness closed in, certain ragged clouds which had lain low on the eastern horizon coalesced and formed a great irregular cumulus. The glass was still low, and I knew that there was mischief brewing. About nine o'clock a dull moaning sound came up from the sea, as from a creature who, much harassed, learns that the hour of suffering has come round again. At ten a sharp breeze sprang up from the eastward. At eleven it had increased to a gale, and by midnight the most furious storm was raging which I ever remember upon that weather-beaten coast.
	: As I went to bed the shingle and seaweed were pattering up against my attic window, and the wind was screaming as though every gust were a lost soul. By that time the sounds of the tempest had become a lullaby to me. I knew that the grey walls of the old house would buffet it out, and for what occurred in the world outside I had small concern. Old Madge was usually as callous to such things as I was myself. It was a surprise to me when, about three in the morning, I was awoke by the sound of a great knocking at my door and excited cries in the wheezy voice of my house-keeper. I sprang out of my hammock, and roughly demanded of her what was the matter.		: As I went to bed the shingle and seaweed were pattering up against my attic window, and the wind was screaming as though every gust were a lost soul. By that time the sounds of the tempest had become a lullaby to me. I knew that the grey walls of the old house would buffet it out, and for what occurred in the world outside I had small concern. Old Madge was usually as callous to such things as I was myself. It was a surprise to me when, about three in the morning, I was awoke by the sound of a great knocking at my door and excited cries in the wheezy voice of my house-keeper. I sprang out of my hammock, and roughly demanded of her what was the matter.
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	I am most grateful to Mr [[Richard Lancelyn Green]] for checking the Novel Magazine and the Newnes Sixpenny Copyright Novels texts, to confirm their identity with the Hodder and Stoughton Sevenpenny Library texts.		I am most grateful to Mr [[Richard Lancelyn Green]] for checking the Novel Magazine and the Newnes Sixpenny Copyright Novels texts, to confirm their identity with the Hodder and Stoughton Sevenpenny Library texts.

	[[Owen Dudley Edwards]] needs no introduction to members of this Society. Born in Dublin in 1938, he is a Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been on the teaching staff since 1968. He is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including biographical studies of P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde and [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. He has recently contributed an Afterword to the Society's joint facsimile production of The Adventure of The Dying Detective, and has edited and introduced a new edition of The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, published by Canongate. His latest book, City of a Thousand Worlds: Edinburgh in Festival was published by Mainstream in September. He is an Honorary Member of the Society and a welcome and regular contributor to our publications.		''[[Owen Dudley Edwards]] needs no introduction to members of this Society. Born in Dublin in 1938, he is a Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been on the teaching staff since 1968. He is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including biographical studies of P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde and [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. He has recently contributed an Afterword to the Society's joint facsimile production of The Adventure of The Dying Detective, and has edited and introduced a new edition of The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, published by Canongate. His latest book, City of a Thousand Worlds: Edinburgh in Festival was published by Mainstream in September. He is an Honorary Member of the Society and a welcome and regular contributor to our publications.''

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	== The Mystery of The Mystery of Cloomber ==		== The Mystery of The Mystery of Cloomber ==
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	[[File:Acd-society-journal-1991-09-p102-the-mystery-of-the-mystery-of-cloomber\|thumb\|250px\|right\|[[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (autumn 1991, p. 102)]]		[[File:Acd-society-journal-1991-09-p102-the-mystery-of-the-mystery-of-cloomber.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|right\|[[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (autumn 1991, p. 102)]]
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	: '' 'There's ane thing that I havena spoken aboot yet, but that should be set doon' ''		: '' 'There's ane thing that I havena spoken aboot yet, but that should be set doon' ''

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	\| '''[[The Mystery of Cloomber]] Chapter XI'''		\|style="width:50%; vertical-align:top;"\| '''[[The Mystery of Cloomber]] Chapter XI'''
	: As I returned over the moors in the evening, the wind was blowing in short, angry puffs, and the western horizon was heaped with sombre clouds which stretched their long, ragged tentacles right up to the zenith.		: As I returned over the moors in the evening, the wind was blowing in short, angry puffs, and the western horizon was heaped with sombre clouds which stretched their long, ragged tentacles right up to the zenith.
	: Against their dark background one or two livid, sulphur-coloured splotches showed up malignant and menacing, while the surface of the sea had changed from the appearance of burnished quick-silver to that of ground glass. A low, moaning sound rose up from the ocean as if it knew that trouble was in store for it...		: Against their dark background one or two livid, sulphur-coloured splotches showed up malignant and menacing, while the surface of the sea had changed from the appearance of burnished quick-silver to that of ground glass. A low, moaning sound rose up from the ocean as if it knew that trouble was in store for it...
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	: Suddenly, however, a light glimmered in the heart of the tempest, and next instant the beach and sea and wide, tossing bay were brilliantly illuminated by the wild glare of a signal light.		: Suddenly, however, a light glimmered in the heart of the tempest, and next instant the beach and sea and wide, tossing bay were brilliantly illuminated by the wild glare of a signal light.
	: The ship lay on her beam-ends right in the centre of the terrible reef, hurled over to such an angle that I could see all the planking of her deck. ...		: The ship lay on her beam-ends right in the centre of the terrible reef, hurled over to such an angle that I could see all the planking of her deck. ...
	\| '''[[The Man from Archangel]] Paragraphs 8ff.'''		\|style="width:50%; vertical-align:top;"\| '''[[The Man from Archangel]] Paragraphs 8ff.'''
	: The sun sank down in the west behind a line of purple clouds, and the smooth surface of the bay was gashed with scarlet streaks. Along the beach the pools left by the tide showed up like gouts of blood against the yellow sand, as if some wounded giant had toilfully passed that way, and had left these red traces of his grievous hurt behind him. As the darkness closed in, certain ragged clouds which had lain low on the eastern horizon coalesced and formed a great irregular cumulus. The glass was still low, and I knew that there was mischief brewing. About nine o'clock a dull moaning sound came up from the sea, as from a creature who, much harassed, learns that the hour of suffering has come round again. At ten a sharp breeze sprang up from the eastward. At eleven it had increased to a gale, and by midnight the most furious storm was raging which I ever remember upon that weather-beaten coast.		: The sun sank down in the west behind a line of purple clouds, and the smooth surface of the bay was gashed with scarlet streaks. Along the beach the pools left by the tide showed up like gouts of blood against the yellow sand, as if some wounded giant had toilfully passed that way, and had left these red traces of his grievous hurt behind him. As the darkness closed in, certain ragged clouds which had lain low on the eastern horizon coalesced and formed a great irregular cumulus. The glass was still low, and I knew that there was mischief brewing. About nine o'clock a dull moaning sound came up from the sea, as from a creature who, much harassed, learns that the hour of suffering has come round again. At ten a sharp breeze sprang up from the eastward. At eleven it had increased to a gale, and by midnight the most furious storm was raging which I ever remember upon that weather-beaten coast.
	: As I went to bed the shingle and seaweed were pattering up against my attic window, and the wind was screaming as though every gust were a lost soul. By that time the sounds of the tempest had become a lullaby to me. I knew that the grey walls of the old house would buffet it out, and for what occurred in the world outside I had small concern. Old Madge was usually as callous to such things as I was myself. It was a surprise to me when, about three in the morning, I was awoke by the sound of a great knocking at my door and excited cries in the wheezy voice of my house-keeper. I sprang out of my hammock, and roughly demanded of her what was the matter.		: As I went to bed the shingle and seaweed were pattering up against my attic window, and the wind was screaming as though every gust were a lost soul. By that time the sounds of the tempest had become a lullaby to me. I knew that the grey walls of the old house would buffet it out, and for what occurred in the world outside I had small concern. Old Madge was usually as callous to such things as I was myself. It was a surprise to me when, about three in the morning, I was awoke by the sound of a great knocking at my door and excited cries in the wheezy voice of my house-keeper. I sprang out of my hammock, and roughly demanded of her what was the matter.
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	\| The poor wretches had evidently taken fresh hope from our presence, though it was clear that their own boats had either been washed away or so damaged as to render them useless.		\|style="width:50%; vertical-align:top;"\| The poor wretches had evidently taken fresh hope from our presence, though it was clear that their own boats had either been washed away or so damaged as to render them useless.
	\| I felt my gorge rise against these poor cowering worms. Why should they pre- sume to shirk the narrow pathway along which all that is great and noble among mankind has travelled?		\|style="width:50%; vertical-align:top;"\| I felt my gorge rise against these poor cowering worms. Why should they pre- sume to shirk the narrow pathway along which all that is great and noble among mankind has travelled?
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