THE MOVING
FINGER
BY
E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
AUTHOR OF “THE LOST AMBASSADOR,” “THE ILLUSTRIOUS
PRINCE,” “JEANNE OF THE MARSHES,” ETC.
With Illustrations by
J. V. McFALL
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1911
Copyright, 1910, 1911,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved.
Published, May, 1911.
Printed by
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U. S. A.
“Sit still,” he whispered. “Don’t say anything. Thereis someone coming.”Frontispiece. See p. 166
“The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.”