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    The Long Arm
    The Long Arm
    The Long Arm
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    The Long Arm

    By Franz Habl

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Long Arm - Franz Habl

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Long Arm, by Franz Habl

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      Title: The Long Arm

      Author: Franz Habl

      Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32610]

      Language: English

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      The Long Arm

      By FRANZ HABL

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      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales October 1937. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Creeping, writhing, insidiously crawling and groping, the long arm reached out in its ghastly errand of death

      I had been out of Germany for thirty-five years, drawn hither and thither by various glittering of will-of-the-wisps. When I returned to my native country, I was as poor in pocket as when I left, and much poorer in illusions.

      The Berlin insurance company which I had represented with such mediocre success in Switzerland, Austria and Belgium agreed to let me sell for them at home, and by a curious coincidence there was an opening in the quaint old Bavarian city in which I had been born and bred.

      I will pass over the strangely mingled feelings with which I rode in a Twentieth Century railroad train past the thousand-year-old walls of one of the most curious ancient cities in Europe, a town moreover whose every winding narrow street and sharp-gabled building had been the companion of my infancy and childhood. No one seemed to know me, and I recognized no one. For several days I made no attempt to sell life insurance, but wandered in a dream, the bewildered ghost of my former self, about the spots which I had known in happier days.

      One dull rainy afternoon I took refuge from the weather in a dingy little coffee-house in which, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, I along with certain boon companions, had learned the gentle art of billiards. It seemed as if every article of

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