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THE GREAT GOD PAN
The Great God Pan
and The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen
AUTHOR OF / THE CHRONICLE OF
CLEMENDY,' AND TRANSLATOR
OF 'THE HEPTAMERON' AND
'LE MOYEN DE PARVENIR*
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Boston: Roberts Bros., 1894
London: John Lane, Vigo St.
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Copyright,
BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.
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JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE GREAT GOD PAN —
THE EXPERIMENT ^
MR. CLARKE'S MEMOIRS 28
THE CITY OF RESURRECTIONS 48
THE DISCOVERY IN PAUL STREET. 69
THE LETTER OF ADVICE 8$
THE SUICIDES IOO
THE ENCOUNTER IN SOHO 123
THE FRAGMENTS I42
THE INMOST LIGHT 157
THE EXPERIMENT.
" T AM glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed. I was not sure you could spare the time.''
" I was able to make arrangements for a few days; things are not very lively just now. But have you no misgivings,
Raymond? Is it absolutely safe? "
The two men were slowly pacing the terrace in front of Dr. Raymond's house.
The sun still hung above the western mountain-line, but it shone with a dull red glow that cast no shadows, and all the air was quiet; a sweet breath came from the great wood on the hillside above, and
with it, at intervals, the soft murmuring call of the wild doves. Below, in the long lovely valley, the river wound in and out between the lonely hills …