Fatal
“I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph. To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts.
—EDGAR ALLAN POE, “THE TELL-TALE HEART”
IN SPITE OF HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE “POCASSET Horror” (as the Freeman affair came to be known), Alden Davis retained the respect, if not the affection, of his townsmen. As the decades passed, he became a venerable figure in the community—a white-haired, white-bearded gentleman whose neigh...bors conferred upon him the ultimate New England honorific. “Captain Davis,” they called him—though the mariner’s life had never been among his many occupations.
Thanks partly to Davis’s enterprising spirit, Cataumet and its environs had become a popular seaside resort. President Grover Cleveland himself had a home on Buzzards Bay, and Joseph Jefferson—the most famous American actor of his day, who delighted audiences for forty years with his comic portrayal of Rip Van Winkle—summered nearby.MoreLess
—EDGAR ALLAN POE, “THE TELL-TALE HEART”
IN SPITE OF HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE “POCASSET Horror” (as the Freeman affair came to be known), Alden Davis retained the respect, if not the affection, of his townsmen. As the decades passed, he became a venerable figure in the community—a white-haired, white-bearded gentleman whose neigh...bors conferred upon him the ultimate New England honorific. “Captain Davis,” they called him—though the mariner’s life had never been among his many occupations.
Thanks partly to Davis’s enterprising spirit, Cataumet and its environs had become a popular seaside resort. President Grover Cleveland himself had a home on Buzzards Bay, and Joseph Jefferson—the most famous American actor of his day, who delighted audiences for forty years with his comic portrayal of Rip Van Winkle—summered nearby.MoreLess
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