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THE

CLOCKWORK MAN

By E.V. ODLE

AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF ALFRED RUDD"

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD.

First published April 1923

Printed in Great Britain

"Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessaryepiphenomenon."—Prof. Lloyd Morgan.

TO

ROSE ISSERLIS

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE
I. The Coming of the Clockwork Man 1
II. The Wonderful Cricketer 24
III. The Mystery of the Clockwork Man 40
IV. Arthur Withers thinks Things out 63
V. The Clockwork Man investigatesMatters 84
VI. "It is not so, it was not so, and,indeed, God forbid it should be so" 105
VII. The Clockwork Man explains Himself 131
VIII. The Clock 150
IX. Gregg 168
X. Last Appearance of the ClockworkMan 191

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CHAPTER ONE

THE COMING OF THE CLOCKWORK MAN

I

It was just as Doctor Allingham had congratulated himself upon the factthat the bowling was broken, and that he had only to hit now and savethe trouble of running, just as he was scanning the boundaries with oneeye and with the other following Tanner's short, crooked arm raisedhigh above the white sheet at the back of the opposite wicket, that henoticed the strange figure. Its abrupt appearance, at first sight likea scare-crow dumped suddenly on the horizon, caused him to lessen hisgrip upon the bat in his hand. His mind wandered for just that fatalmoment, and his vision of the on-coming bowler was swept away and itsplace taken by that arresting figure of a man coming over the pathat the top of the hill, a man whose attitude, on closer examination,seemed extraordinarily

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