DAVID POINDEXTER'S
DISAPPEARANCE
_AND OTHER TALES_

BY
JULIAN HAWTHORNE




CONTENTS.


DAVID POINDEXTER'S DISAPPEARANCE
KEN'S MYSTERY
"WHEN HALF-GODS GO, THE GODS ARRIVE"
"SET NOT THY FOOT ON GRAVES"
MY FRIEND PATON




DAVID POINDEXTER'S DISAPPEARANCE.


Among the records of the English state trials are to be found many
strange stories, which would, as the phrase is, make the fortune of a
modern novelist. But there are also numerous cases, not less
stimulating to imagination and curiosity, which never attained more
than local notoriety, of which the law was able to take but