Mystery of the Sassafras Chair
“He lay motionless, listening, not at once remembering where he was. For a moment everything seemed strange—the odd mustiness of the bedding that hadn’t been aired, the blackness of the room, the steady rushing outside that was like heavy rain. Through his mind flashed a vision of his home in Malaya, with the myna birds chattering in the great banyan tree shading the yard. But this was not the tropics—there were heavy blankets over him. He was in America, and back in the mountains. The rushing h...e heard came from the wild stream below the cabin.
What had awakened him? Surely it wasn’t the stream. There’d been something else, something on the edge of consciousness he couldn’t quite recall.
Vaguely uneasy, he raised up on an elbow and tried to identify the sounds around him. From somewhere in the tangle up the slope came the cry of a whippoorwill. Nearer, in the surrounding hemlocks, he made out the soft bubbling of an owl. Mice scampered through the cabin walls, and crickets chirped beyond the window.MoreLess
What had awakened him? Surely it wasn’t the stream. There’d been something else, something on the edge of consciousness he couldn’t quite recall.
Vaguely uneasy, he raised up on an elbow and tried to identify the sounds around him. From somewhere in the tangle up the slope came the cry of a whippoorwill. Nearer, in the surrounding hemlocks, he made out the soft bubbling of an owl. Mice scampered through the cabin walls, and crickets chirped beyond the window.MoreLess
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