Near their residence, Branksome, is The Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted. After a little while it is settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous to the point of being paranoid. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that his fears are connected with some people in India whom he has offended somehow. People hear a strange sound, like the tolling of a bell, in his presence, which seems to cause the general great discomfort. Every year his paranoia reaches its climax around the fifth of October, after which date his fears subside for a while. After some time there is a shipwreck in the bay and among the survivors are three Buddhist priests who had boarded the ship from Kurrachee.
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Table of Contents:
Chapter I. The Hegira of the Wests From Edinburgh
Chapter II. Of the Strange Manner in Which a Tenant Came to Cloomber
Chapter III. Of Our Further Acquaintance With Major-general J.B. Heatherstone
Chapter IV. Of a Young Man With a Grey Head
Chapter V. How Four of Us Came to be Under the Shadow of Cloomber
Chapter VI. How I Came to be Enlisted as One of the Garrison of Cloomber
Chapter VII. Of Corporal Rufus Smith and His Coming to Cloomber
Chapter VIII. Statement of Israel Stakes
Chapter IX. Narrative of John Easterling, F.R.C.P. Edin
Chapter X. Of the Letter Which Came From the Hall
Chapter XI. Of the Casting Away of the Barque "Belinda"
Chapter XII. Of the Three Foreign Men Upon the Coast
Chapter XIII. In Which I See That Which Has Been Seen by Few
Chapter XIV. Of the Visitor Who Ran Down the Road in the Night-time
Chapter XV. The Day-book of John Berthier Heatherstone
Chapter XVI. At the Hole of Cree
