Transcriber’s Note:
Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
TALES OF THE
UNEXPECTED
BY
H. G. WELLS
LONDON: 48 PALL MALL
W. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD.
GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLAND
Manufactured in Great Britain
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON’S EYES | 7 |
| THE MOTH | 20 |
| THE STORY OF THE LATE MR ELVESHAM | 33 |
| UNDER THE KNIFE | 54 |
| THE PLATTNER STORY | 71 |
| THE CRYSTAL EGG | 96 |
| THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES | 118 |
| A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON | 140 |
| THE NEW ACCELERATOR | 172 |
| THE DOOR IN THE WALL | 190 |
| THE APPLE | 211 |
| THE TEMPTATION OF HARRINGAY | 221 |
| SKELMERSDALE IN FAIRYLAND | 228 |
| THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST | 245 |
| THE STOLEN BODY | 261 |
THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON’S EYES
I
The transitory mental aberration of Sidney Davidson, remarkableenough in itself, is still more remarkable if Wade’s explanation isto be credited. It sets one dreaming of the oddest possibilities ofinter-communication in the future, of spending an intercalary fiveminutes on the other side of the world, or being watched in our mostsecret operations by unsuspected eyes. It happened that I was theimmediate witness of Davidson’s seizure, and so it falls naturally tome to put the story upon paper.
When I say that I was the immediate witness of his seizure, I meanthat I was the first on the scene. The thing happened at the HarlowTechnical College, just beyond the Highgate Archway. He was alone inthe la