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| A Moral Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one. |
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| Three short Civil War and ghost stories by the unsentimental American storyteller Ambrose Bierce. A soldier in the Civil War makes an incredible decision. Ghosts seek justice where man cannot. |
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| Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In charging the jury, the judge of the Court of Acquittal remarked... |
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| My peculiar relation to the writer of the following narratives is such that I must ask the reader to overlook the absence of explanation as to how they came into my possession. Withal, my knowledge of... |
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