The Moving Finger

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E. Phillips Oppenheim

BY

E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

AUTHOR OF “THE LOST AMBASSADOR,” “THE ILLUSTRIOUS
PRINCE,” “JEANNE OF THE MARSHES,” ETC.

With Illustrations by
J. V. McFALL

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1911

Copyright, 1910, 1911,
By Little, Brown, and Company.

All rights reserved.

Published, May, 1911.

Printed by
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U. S. A.

“Sit still,” he whispered. “Don’t say anything. There is someone coming.” “Sit still,” he whispered. “Don’t say anything. There is someone coming.”
Frontispiece. See p. 166

“The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.”