03101cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000320012624500410015826400510019930000470025033600260029733700260032333800360034950000310038550502710041650802130068752015230090053400710242365300270249465300360252170000440255785600760260185600430267799900190272076971UtSlPG20260610134801.0mcr n260607r20251905utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a05035301  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aHichens, Robert,d1864-195014aThe black spaniel, and other stories 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-10-030 aThe black spaniel -- The mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne -- Desert air -- "Fin Tireur" -- Halima and the scorpions -- The desert drum -- The princess and the jewel doctor -- The figure in the mirage -- Safti's summer day -- Smaïn -- The spinster -- Pancrazia's hair.  aCharlene Taylor, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  aThe black spaniel, and other stories by Robert Hichens is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. It opens with a psychological tale of moral conflict and obsession over animal cruelty and vivisection, centering on the cultured traveler Vernon Kersteven, the eminent physician Dr. Peter Deeming, and their mutual friend who narrates. The volume likely ranges from European salons to North African deserts, blending society drama with eerie undercurrents and atmospheric travel pieces.  The opening of the collection follows the narrator as he introduces Deeming to Vernon in Rome, where a dinner debate over animals turns heated after Vernon reveals his beloved spaniel was stolen and used for vivisection. Back in England, events take a tense, uncanny turn: Deeming abruptly leaves Rome, looks ill at Dover, and Vernon soon rents the house next door in Wimpole Street, shrouding his motives. The narrator’s attempt to draw out Deeming’s “black spaniel” ends with his own fox-terrier yelping in pain inside Deeming’s house and fleeing; shortly after, while the narrator is away, news arrives that Deeming has died from blood poisoning caused by a dog bite. A year later, Vernon—now an active animal advocate—impulsively buys a black spaniel from a street seller and receives the narrator for tea in the renovated, conjoined Wimpole Street houses, leaving the mystery and tension around the dog and Deeming’s shadow very much alive. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1905  aShort stories, English  aEnglish fiction -- 20th century1 aForestier, A.q(Amédée),d1854-19304 uhttps://archive.org/details/blackspanielando00hichrich/page/n7/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76971  c117695d117695