{"product_id":"2940015138726","title":"The Soul Stealer","description":"• The book has been proof-read and corrected for spelling and grammatical errors\u003cbr\u003e• All our books with improved formatting and links to chapters\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt:\u003cbr\u003eIt was good to be back in his own place again, the curtains drawn, the lamps glowing, the world shut out. He was happier here than anywhere else, after all! It was here in this beautiful room, with its books and pictures, its cultured comfort, that the real events of his life took place, those splendid hours of solitude, when he set down the vivid experiences of his crowded life with all the skill and power God had given him, and he himself had cultivated so manfully and well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow for it! Tired as his mind was, there lay a time of deep thinking before it. There was the article for to-morrow to group and arrange. It was probably the most important piece of work he had ever been called upon to do. It would startle the world, and it behoved him to put forth all his energies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet there was something else. He must consider the problem of the cigarette-case first. It was immediate and disturbing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow had this thing come into Sir William's possession? What communication had Gouldesbrough had with Guy Rathbone? That they were rivals for the hand of Miss Poole Megbie knew quite well. Every one knew it. It was most unlikely that the two men could have been friends or even acquaintances. Indeed Megbie was almost certain that Rathbone did not know Sir William.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWas that little shining toy on the table a message from the past? Or was it rather instinct with a present meaning?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe took it up again and looked at it curiously.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmediately that he did so, the sense of agitation and unrest returned to him with tremendous force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMegbie was not a superstitious man. But now-a-days we all know so much more about the non-material things of life that only the most ignorant people call a man with a belief in the supernatural, superstitious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike many another highly educated man of our time, Megbie knew that there are strange and little-understood forces all round us. When an ex-Prime Minister is a keen investigator into the psychic, when the principal of Birmingham University, a leading scientist, writes constantly in dispute of the mere material aspect of life—the cultured world follows suit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMegbie held the cigarette-case in his hand. All the electric lights burned steadily. The door was closed and there was not a sound in the flat.","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172030497008,"sku":"2940015138726","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015138726_p0.jpg?v=1763619291","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015138726","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}