A Christmas Mystery

The Story of Three Wise Men

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A Christmas Mystery, with the subtitle The Story of Three Wise Men, is credited to William John Locke. The text describes three men who had gained great fame and honour throughout the world and met unexpectedly in front of the bookstall at Paddington Station. Viscount Doyne is described as the renowned Empire Builder and Administrator, around whose solitary and remote life popular imagination had woven many legends.

Sir Angus McCurdie states that why the whole land should be turned into a bear garden on account of this exploded superstition of Christmas is one of the anomalies of modern civilization. McCurdie says hoarsely, to Doyne, that it was not the Angel of Death but another Messenger that drew them here.

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William John Locke

William John Locke (1863–1930) was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, took a mathematics degree at St John's College, Cambridge, and taught school before spending a decade as secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects.