Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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8,885 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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of whom we were in search.

He was lying face downward upon a frozen bank.

Many little crystals of ice and feathers of snow had drifted on him as he lay.

and sparkled upon his dark seaman's jacket.

As we came up some wandering puff of wind caught these tiny flakes in its vortex and they whirled up into the air.

Partially descended again.

And then

Caught once more in the current, sped rapidly away in the direction of the sea.

To my eyes it seemed but a snow drift, but many of my companions avered that

that it started up in the shape of a woman, stooped over the corpse and kissed it.

and then hurried away across the flow.

I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem.

Sure it is that Captain Nicholas Craigie had met with no painful end.

For there was a bright smile upon his blue pinched features, and his hands were still outstretched.

As though grasping at the strange visitor.

which had summoned him away into the dim world that lies beyond the grave.

We buried him that same afternoon.

with a ship's ensign around him and a thirty two pound shot at his feet.

I read the burial service.

while the rough sailors wept like children.

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