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                             LITTLE CLASSICS

                                EDITED BY
                            ROSSITER JOHNSON

                               STORIES OF
                                 TRAGEDY

                             [Illustration]

                           BOSTON AND NEW YORK
                        HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
                      The Riverside Press Cambridge
                                  1914

                COPYRIGHT, 1874, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
                           ALL RIGHTS RESERVED




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CONTENTS.


                                                              PAGE

    THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE     _Edgar Allan Poe_          7

    THE LAUSON TRAGEDY                _J. W. DeForest_          56

    THE IRON SHROUD         