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THE CLOCKWORK MAN




By E.V. ODLE AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF ALFRED RUDD"

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_First published April 1923_


_Printed in Great Britain_


"Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary
epiphenomenon."--Prof. Lloyd Morgan.




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CONTENTS.


 CHAP.                                                            PAGE

 I. The Coming of the Clockwork Man                                 1

 II. The Wonderful Cricketer                                       24

 III. The Mystery of the Clockwork Man                             40

 IV. Arthur Withers thinks Things out                              63

 V. The Clockwork Man investigates Matters                         84

 VI. "It is not so, it was not so,