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    The Bronze Hand 1897
    The Bronze Hand 1897
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    The Bronze Hand 1897

    By Anna Katharine Green

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Anna Katharine Green

    Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) was an American writer and prominent figure in the detective genre. Born in New York City, Green developed an affinity for literature at an early age. She studied at Ripley Female College in Vermont and was mentored by poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of Green’s best-known works is The Leavenworth Case, which was published in 1878. It was a critical and commercial success that made her one of the leading voices in literature. Over the course of her career, Green would go on to write nearly 40 books.

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      The Bronze Hand 1897 - Anna Katharine Green

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bronze Hand, by

      Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

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      Title: The Bronze Hand

             1897

      Author: Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

      Release Date: September 29, 2007 [EBook #22806]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRONZE HAND ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE BRONZE HAND

      By Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

      Copyright, 1897, by Anna Katharine Green

      Contents

      I. THE FASCINATING UNKNOWN.

      HER room was on the ground floor of the house we mutually inhabited, and mine directly above it, so that my opportunities for seeing her were limited to short glimpses of her auburn head as she leaned out of the window to close her shutters at night or open them in the morning. Yet our chance encounter in the hall or on the walk in front, had made so deep an impression upon my sensibilities that I was never without the vision of her pale face set off by the aureole of reddish brown hair, which, since my first meeting with her, had become for me the symbol of everything beautiful, incomprehensible and strange.

      For my fellow-lodger was a mystery.

      I am a busy man now, but just at the time of which I speak, I had leisure in abundance.

      I was sharing with many others the unrest of the perilous days subsequent to the raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Abraham Lincoln had been elected President. Baltimore, where the incidents I am relating transpired, had become the headquarters of men who secretly leagued themselves in antagonism to the North. Men and women who felt that their Northern brethren had grievously wronged them planned to undermine the stability of the government. The schemes at this time were gigantic in their conception and far-reaching in their scope and endless ramifications.

      Naturally under these conditions, a consciousness of ever-present danger haunted every thinking mind. The candor of the outspoken was regarded with doubt, and the reticence of the more cautious, with distrust. It was a trying time for sensitive, impressionable natures with nothing to do. Perhaps all this may account for the persistency with which I sat in my open window. I was thus sitting one night—a memorable one to me—when I heard a sharp exclamation from below, in a voice I had long listened for.

      Any utterance from those lips would have attracted my attention; but, filled as this was with marked, if not extraordinary, emotion, I could not fail to be roused to a corresponding degree of curiosity and interest.

      Thrusting out my head, I cast a rapid glance downward. A shutter swinging in the wind, and the escaping figure of a man hurrying round the corner of the street, were all that rewarded my scrutiny; though, from the stream of light issuing from the casement beneath, I perceived that her window, like my own, was wide open.

      As I continued to watch this light, I saw her thrust out her head with an eagerness indicative of great excitement. Peering to right and left, she murmured some suppressed words mixed with gasps of such strong feeling that I involuntarily called out:

      Excuse me, madam, have you been frightened in any way by the man I saw running away from here a moment ago?

      She gave a great start and glanced up. I see her face yet—beautiful, wonderful; so beautiful and so wonderful I have never been able to forget it. Meeting my eye, she faltered out:

      Did you see a man running away from here? Oh, sir, if I might have a word with you!

      I came near leaping directly to the pavement in my ardor and anxiety to oblige her, but, remembering before it was too late that she was neither a Juliet nor I a Romeo, I merely answered that I would be with her in a moment and betook myself below by the less direct but safer means of the staircase.

      It was a short one and I was but a moment in descending, but that moment was long enough for my heart to acquire a most uncomfortable throb, and it was with anything but an air of quiet self-possession that I approached the threshold I had never before dared to cross even in fancy.

      The door was open and I caught one glimpse of her figure before she was aware of my presence. She was contemplating her right hand with a look of terror, which, added to her striking personality, made her seem at the instant a creature of alarming characteristics fully as capable of awakening awe as devotion.

      I may have given some token of the agitation her appearance awakened, for she turned towards me with sudden vehemence.

      Oh! she cried, with a welcoming gesture; you are the gentleman from up-stairs who saw a man running away from here a moment ago. Would you know that man if you saw him again?

      I am afraid not, I replied. He was only a flying figure in my eyes.

      Oh! she moaned, bringing her hands together in dismay. But, immediately straightening herself, she met my regard with one as direct as my own. I need a friend, she said, and I am surrounded by strangers.

      I made a move

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