TEN MINUTE STORIES
TEN MINUTE STORIES
By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
AUTHOR OF "JOHN SILENCE" ETC.

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
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All rights reserved
PREFATORY NOTE
The Author wishes to thank the Editors of the Morning Post, the Westminster Gazette, and Country Life for permission to reprint in this volume stories originally published in their papers.
CONTENTS
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1951, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.