Stories by
American Authors
VOLUME III
| THE SPIDER’S EYE | POOR OGLA-MOGA | |
| BY LUCRETIA P. HALE | BY DAVID D. LLOYD | |
| A STORY OF THE LATIN QUARTER | A MEMORABLE MURDER | |
| BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT | BY CELIA THAXTER | |
| TWO PURSE-COMPANIONS | VENETIAN GLASS | |
| BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP | BY BRANDER MATTHEWS |
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1896
Copyright, 1884-1885, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
THE SPIDER’S EYE.
By Lucretia P. Hale.
⁂ Putnam’s Magazine, July, 1856.
There are whispering galleries, where, if the ear is placed in acertain position, it takes in the sound of the lowest whisper from theopposite side of the room. But, to produce this effect, thearchitecture of the apartment must be of a peculiar nature, and,especially, the rules and laws of sound must be observed.
I have often thought that, were one wise enough, there might be found,in every room, a centre to which all sound must converge. Nay, thatperhaps such a focus had already been discovered by some one who haswished to appear wiser than his neighbors, who has made use of somehitherto unknown scientific fact, and has on any one occasion, or onmany occasions, thus made himself the centre of information.
These ideas occurred to my mind when I arrived the other night early[Pg 6]at the theatre, and was for a time, literally, the only occupant ofthe house. I fell to marvelling at the skill of the architec