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    Ring Once for Death
    Ring Once for Death
    Ring Once for Death
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    Ring Once for Death

    By Ernie Barth and Robert Arthur

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Ring Once for Death

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      Ring Once for Death - Ernie Barth

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ring Once for Death, by Robert Andrew Arthur

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      Title: Ring Once for Death

      Author: Robert Andrew Arthur

      Illustrator: Ernie Barth

      Release Date: March 31, 2010 [EBook #31840]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RING ONCE FOR DEATH ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Amazing Stories March 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      RING ONCE

      FOR DEATH

      BY ROBERT ARTHUR

      Illustrator: Ernie Barth

      The power of the old gods was certainly nothing for Mark and Edith—a modern, twentieth-century couple—to worry about. After all—everybody dies!

      wenty years had left no trace inside Sam Kee's little shop on Mott Street. There were the same dusty jars of ginseng root and tigers' whiskers, the same little bronze Buddahs, the same gim-cracks mixed with fine jade. Edith Williams gave a little murmur of pleasure as the door shut behind them.

      Mark, she said, it hasn't changed! It doesn't look as if a thing had been sold since we were here on our honeymoon.

      It certainly doesn't, Dr. Mark Williams agreed, moving down the narrow aisle behind her. If someone hadn't told us Sam Kee was dead, I'd believe we'd stepped back twenty years in time, like they do in those scientific stories young David reads.

      We must buy something, his wife said. For a twentieth anniversary present for me. Perhaps a bell?

      From the shadowy depths of the

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