"I searched about till I found some solder and an iron. Perhaps you know about him, Masterman? "He seemed quite pleased to see me, and was full of his forthcoming trip. This episode follows after The Abominable Bride. "He had a magnificent great house about five miles out of the city, crammed full of pictures and antiques and so on. he went on. Members of London's "Egotists' Club" are telling stories of odd things that happened to them, when one of the member's guests, a cinema actor named Varden, relates that he was invited to model for a wealthy sculptor, Eric Loder, and spent several months at Loder's New York mansion. I stared at him, for I knew the front door was locked, but before I could get my wits together he spoke. "'I have come,' I said, 'to tell you that I know how the apple gets into the dumpling.' eNotes.com has study guides, lesson plans, quizzes with a vibrant community of knowledgeable teachers and students to help you with almost any subject. Still, there was something very attractive about Loder. The Egotists' Club is one of the most genial places in London. ", "Don't apologise," said Varden, with a little laugh. The book offers the reader a wild ride through not just an action-packed tale, but also through pre-war mountaineering history. demanded Bayes. "The rods hung over it with their hooks all empty, but there was a packing-case half-opened at one side of the room, and, pulling the covering aside, I could see rows of copper anodes—enough of them to put a plating over a quarter of an inch thick on a life-size figure. The devoted fellow shadowed Loder faithfully for getting on for three weeks, and at length, the very day before Mr. Varden was due to depart, the cablegram was sent from an office in Broadway, where, by a happy providence (once more) they supply extremely hard pencils. Loder put me opposite it, so that I could see it during dinner, and, really, I could hardly take my eyes off it. "I saw a biggish square room, fitted up as a workshop. The effect of Wimsey's voice on Varden had been extraordinary. The giant ice block breaks open, exposing a very alive Abominable Snowman, a … ", "I've never seen any of his things," said the poet, "but I remember some photographs in The Art of To-Morrow. Before I could move to do anything, I knew he was dead—poisoned and drowned and dead. "He'd written to me before, but I'd had two big pictures to make in '19, and it couldn't be done. The only thing we brought away with us was the facsimile of the Consular seal, and that we threw into the river. Other visible human characteristics, such as facial features, change considerably with age but fingerprints are relatively persistent. https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/The_Abominable_Snowman_of_Pasadena "The man turned and threw the blue cushions off the foot of the silver couch. It wouldn't have mattered, only that I'd only brought a little open racing car and no overcoat, and certainly the prospect of five miles in that downpour wasn't altogether attractive. Damned foolish; but the possibility of his being mistaken did not occur to me. "'Not particularly,' I said, more and more astonished. "There was another door at the bottom, but it didn't take me long to fathom the secret of that. But I wondered why he hadn't said so when I'd met him the day before. It is a place to which you may go when you want to tell that odd dream you had last night, or to announce what a good dentist you have discovered. I'd only seen him in that Apollo Belvedere thing, with a fair wig on. Loder came in at the end of one of these conversations. ', "'Oh! We read in the papers how he had fallen into the vat when engaged on some experiments in electro-plating. He was really unhappy, I could see that quite well, and soon I discovered the reason. Forgiving me what? "When I pulled myself together I did rather wonder what Loder was thinking about my disappearance, but I could no more have gone back into that horrible house than I could have taken poison. "He turned on me with a face like nothing human. On two occasions Loder had an art spasm, and shut himself up in his studio to work and wouldn't let anybody in for several days on end. *¿Cómo es Iván Teruel cuando no e... *Desmemoria* There was something else I was looking for, and I soon found it—a considerable quantity of prepared graphite and a big jar of varnish. "But I did begin to think Loder a trifle degenerate when I saw that couch. Wimsey's seen enough queer things not to have to waste his time inventing them. said Wimsey, a trifle hurt. I was surprised, because I didn't know there was any way out in that direction. It was an idea which seemed to begin in my stomach, and work its way up to the roots of my hair. Then I found it was hopeless—sheets, blankets, mattress, all soaked. Though I think the poor girl sometimes got tired of being gloated over that way. Upon my word, though he certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen. "It was the evening before I had to leave New York," went on Varden. Dear old Reubenssohn produced it. "I apologise. And in the fortnight that followed I grew more and more uncomfortable with him. "Well," said Varden, "I'm not ashamed to say I went out of that house like an old buck-rabbit that hears the man with the gun. This edition doesn't have a description yet. Cyanide, you see, is about the swiftest and painfullest thing out. He closed the cupboard door very gently after him, and padded across the studio. I should have thought Europe was more in his line. But I found my bags at the station next day, duly registered for Vancouver. I've still not the faintest idea who the fair man was, or what became of him, but I heard in a roundabout way that Loder was dead—in some kind of an accident, I fancy. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” (H.P. During the investigation, he meets Charles Parker of Scotland Yard. "He lay there, still twitching faintly. "You've heard all about my interview with Mr. Varden. We went into the smoking-room and soldered the arm of that cursed figure into place again, as well as we could, and then we took everything back into the workshop. He was so obviously hurt in his vanity, you know, as well as in his feelings. He used to exhibit a good deal and had a lot of one-man shows of his stuff to which the highbrow people went—he did a good many bronzes, I believe. It’s not easy being a gentleman sleuth, but Lord Peter is the man for the job. ', "'Australia?' Electro-plating—especially such a ticklish job as the one I had in mind—wasn't a job that could be finished in a night; on the other hand, it seemed necessary that Mr. Varden should be seen alive in New York up to the day he was scheduled to depart. ", "That's true enough," said Bayes. I used to think his disbelief in everything was a kind of artistic pose, but I began to feel I had done him an injustice. "Then I looked more closely at it, and saw that the figure actually was Maria's, though the face was rather sketchily done, if you understand what I mean. "Why should it be? I said. The silver couch glimmered in the light of the torch. Well, then, in that case, obviously a cablegram would have to be sent off to Mystofilms Ltd., warning them to expect Varden by a later boat than he had arranged. ", "Mr. Varden has unintentionally misled you, Armstrong," said a quiet, husky voice suddenly from the shadow behind Varden's chair. The abominable history of the man with copper fingers [Sayers, Dorothy L] on Amazon.com. "As a matter of fact," he went on, with a change of tone, "it's not really a story I want to get about. I cried. I went so far as to wipe away any finger-marks I might have left behind me, and then I went back to the studio and rearranged that divan. And I showed him the automatic. After being put on release, Sherlock is called in 1982, The abominable history of the man with copper fingers / Dorothy L. Sayers ; illustrated with linocuts by Annie Newnham Inky Parrot Press Headington, Oxford Wikipedia Citation Please see Wikipedia's template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. She'd come from the South—had been a cabaret dancer he said, and she didn't contradict him. On the right-hand wall was a big switchboard, with a bench beneath it. Loder was standing between the tank and the switchboard, very busy indeed—so busy he didn't hear me come in. Loder said he wanted to do a bit of work in the studio first and I saw him depart along the corridor. It would be awfully difficult and dangerous—the slightest accident would have put him at the mercy of his workmen. 'What do you know about her, anyway? My heart put me out of the running for trench service, but I counted on getting some sort of a job, with perseverance, so I packed up and went off. "Loder greeted me very cordially, though I thought he looked older than when I last saw him. ', "'Maria's lover?' "Quite so. que puedo darte todo, el amor y la dicha, "Get on with it, old son. During his time in the palace he serves as head scribe and steward, rather than a priest, due to his lack of faith in the Returned. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty. He was rather given to that sort of stunt, and when it was over we would have a party, and all Loder's friends and hangers-on would come to have a look at the work of art. These mysteries tax not just his intellect, but his humor, knowledge of metallurgy, and taste for fine wines. On this particular evening, Masterman (the cubist poet) had brought a guest with him, a man named Varden. "'So it is,' I said, 'but, after all, why not? But I do really think you had better get out as quickly as possible. Interestingly, a similar movement may now be taking place. warning to avoid dangerous wild animals and to stay close and safe within the community These were only eight men, including Varden, in the brown room that evening. 'Preposterous! I didn't feel Loder would care to think I'd been down there. It struck one of the arms of the figure neatly at the elbow-joint, smashing a jagged hole in the silver. Then I realised that I must have turned on the current when I was hunting for the light. It was hollow, and, as I am alive, I tell you there was a long, dry arm-bone inside it!". "'Well,' he said, 'I thought of making a kind of companion to this, The Sleeping Athlete, you know, or something of that sort. He was stroking the figure over the neck and grinning at it. ", "Oh, that thing! Now, there was a man who could put a thing through with consummate artistry. We hadn't noticed the weather particularly, though it had looked a bit threatening when I started from New York. What's it to do with me? Ireland (Jorge Luis Borges - Bioy Casares ? I'm afraid I was rather stupid about that, Mr. Varden. The conversation had begun quite casually by Armstrong's relating a curious little incident which he had witnessed that afternoon at the Temple Station, and Bayes had gone on to say that that was nothing to the really very odd thing which had happened to him, personally, in a thick fog one night in the Euston Road. I tiptoed over to the easel to see what the fascinating work of art was. Copy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. I looked at the arm-chair, and then I had a brilliant idea. We can't afford to lose you from the club, you know. The abominable history of the man with copper fingers This edition was published in 1982 by Inky Parrot Press in Headington, Oxford . ', "'Italy, nothing,' he said, 'he was all over our place to-day, asking about how you got to Sydney and what were the necessary formalities, and so on.'. A few years later, after the war, Loder invited Varden back to New York, and Varden noticed that Loder's mistress, Maria Moranno, had disappeared, though a life-size gilded sculpture of her now occupied the living room. ", "That's all very well, Bayes," said his lordship, "but if I hadn't just mentioned the matter to Mr. Varden that evening, where would he be? That personal manner of his grew more marked every day, and sometimes, while I was giving him sittings, he would sit there and tell one of the most beastly things, with his eyes fixed on one in the nastiest way, just to see how one would take it. ", "Ah, where? This sounded promising, and the guest was urged to go on with his story. en donde vo... *MICROTEXTUALIDADES (Revista Internacional de microrrelato y minificción)* Lovecraft). " ", "It's a damned good story, Mr. Varden," said Armstrong—he was a dabbler in various kinds of handiwork, and was, indeed, chiefly responsible for Mr. Arbuthnot's motion to ban wireless—"but are you suggesting there was a complete skeleton inside that silver casting? . Nominees are, however, required to pass certain tests, whose nature is sufficiently indicated by the fact that a certain distinguished explorer came to grief through accepting, and smoking, a powerful Trichinopoly cigar as an accompaniment to a '63 port. I remembered that madmen are supposed to be extra strong, and edged towards the bell—and then it came over me with rather a chill that I was alone in the house. However, we now looked out, and saw that it was coming down in sheets and torrents. He was very decent to me, and asked me to stay a few weeks with him while I was looking around. My torch caught the gleam of something liquid, and then I found the wall-switch. ", "That's all right," said Armstrong, "nobody's going to talk. As a stage prop. Varden took the proffered hand, but was speechless. I've always hated things made in the shape of things—volumes of Dickens that turn out to be a biscuit-tin, and dodges like that; and, though I take no overwhelming interest in my own funeral, I should like it to be in good taste. ), Iván Serguéyevich Turguénev ( Иван Сергеевич Тургенев ), Jean Lorrain (Paul Alexandre Martin Duval), Jehanne Jean-Charles (Jean Louis Marcel Charles), Leonid Andreyev ( Леонид Николаевич Андреев ): Андреев (Lazarus), Nikolai Gogol ( Николай Васильевич Гоголь ), Nikolai Leskov (Николай Семенович Лесков ), Pedro Escamilla (Julián Castellanos y Velasco), Thousand and one night ( لف ليلة وليلة ), Замятин Евгений Иванович ( Yevgeny Zamyatin ). That's exactly what we want to know," demanded Smith-Hartington. He wrenched at the arm and brought it away. April: �The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers� 1921 Peter is involved in the Attenbury Emerald case. "'I told you,' he said, 'that it was something original.'. Well, that was advertisement that he'd pay for himself, you know, so I agreed. I took my little pop-gun tight in my fist and opened the door very gently. You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. He said, 'Oh, yes, he'd finished that and done another—something pretty original, which I should like.'. Hace unos días inicié un proyecto que pretende ser colectivo. Click to read more about The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers [Short story] by Dorothy L. Sayers. He told me that Mr. Varden was coming to stay with him before he went, and that he hoped to get him to pose for a figure before he left. He fancies you were Maria Morano's lover when you were here last time. I left for Vancouver next morning, and from that day to this I never saw either of those men again. He said over and over again that we'd meet again soon. Perhaps I have been relying too much on Loder's judgment. He stopped before the easel and uncovered it; I could see him through a crack in the screen. I handed over this part of the job to my man, Bunter, who is uncommonly capable. "My family say I'm too inquisitive. Directed by Jill Culton, Todd Wilderman. "Well, now, you know, that really surprised me. I can tell you I felt queer. And I can't say I had any great fancy for figuring as part of Loder's domestic furniture. Powered by. The streak widened, and Loder emerged, carrying an electric torch. He'd had it rearranged, and the first thing that caught one's eye was a big settee drawn before the fire. I don't think he ever imagined any woman would chuck up the sort of life he'd accustomed her to, and if he was a bit possessive in his manner, at least he never gave her a rival. "That annoyed him. We don't grow them in the States. "D'you mean to say, you mad mystery-monger, that you were Varden's Great Unknown?" She's gone.'. This, with its panelled walls, shaded lamps, and heavy blue curtains was perhaps the cosiest and pleasantest of the small smoking-rooms, of which the club possessed half a dozen or so. ... Luego de un período bastante prolongado, vuelvo a publicar en la web. "I felt so darned inquisitive that I went and called on Loder two nights later. he asked. Otherwise the club is not specially exclusive. "The studio was empty, so I supposed Loder had finished and trotted off to roost. It stood about a couple of feet from the ground, and consisted of a base made like a Roman couch, with cushions and a highish back, all made of oak with a silver inlay, and on top of this, forming the actual seat one sat on, if you follow me, there was a great silver figure of a nude woman, fully life-size, lying with her head back and her arms extended along the sides of the couch. When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. And, as I say, his house surely was beautiful, and he kept a first-class table. Then I went upstairs and called in Bunter, who had done his ten miles in record time. Presently he covered the easel again, and went out by the door at which I had come in. Jordan and Nicoleaccompany their father to Alaska in order to get photographs of the Abominable Snowman after it was sighted there. As we were driving out in the car I asked after Maria. You couldn't find an atom of offence from beginning to end, it was all so tasteful, though in the first part one didn't have anything to wear except a sort of scarf—taken from the classical statue, you know.". Pledges of discretion having been given all round, Lord Peter settled himself back and began his tale. "I had the sense to stop and see that the door could be opened from the inside before I went any farther, and I also selected a good stout pestle which I found on the shelves as a weapon in case of accident. You could sit and listen to him for hours; he'd got anecdotes about everybody, from the Pope to old Phineas E. Groot of the Chicago Ring. "Loder was found by the butler next morning. And, thirdly, of course, I had to discover if Loder was likely to have any grounds for a grudge against Varden. "I wouldn't have believed Loder would have been so genuinely sorry to say good-bye to me. Es cierto que es así: History . Realizada por Víctor Santiago de Dios Menéndez I felt I disliked it fifty times more than ever before. Need help? He'd show her off in the studio with nothing on but a fig-leaf or so—stand her up beside one of the figures he was always doing of her, and compare them point by point. Anyway, it came to the same thing as far as Loder was concerned. He had a curious, hesitating, husky voice and a strong English accent. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. 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