Jump to content

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts

From Wikisource
Old fires and Profitable Ghosts (1900)
by A. T. Quiller-Couch

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts is a collection of short stories of ghosts—and of ghosts of the past.

2447958Old fires and Profitable Ghosts1900A. T. Quiller-Couch

Old Fires
and
Profitable Ghosts
A Book of Stories


by


A. T. QUILLER-COUCH

LONDON
CASSELL AND COMPANY
LIMITED
1900

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.



CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited, London, Paris,
New York & Melbourne.

CONTENTS

  1. page
  2. I. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    1
  3. II. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    19
  4. III. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    39
  5. IV. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    65
  6. V. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    85
  7. VI. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    127
  8. VII. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    173
  9. VIII. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    191
  10. IX. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    221
  11. X. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    247
  12. XI. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    257
  13. XII. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    273
  14. XIII. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    307
  15. XIV. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    315
  16. XV. —
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    333

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1944, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 79 years or less. This work may 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.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse