The Changing Numbers

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W. W. Jacobs is the author of The Changing Numbers. Mr. Samuel Gunnill comes stealthily down the winding staircase just as the tall clock in the corner of the small living-room has just struck eight. Miss Gunnill says that someone was bailed out at one o'clock in the morning and brought home singing loud enough for half-a-dozen. Mr. Gunnill answers the question "Why didn't he take the others?" with great emphasis.

Mr. Gunnill bounds into the air with his fists clenched tightly by his side, while Mr. Drill encourages him from an easy-chair. Mr. Drill says "Don't call on me as a witness, that's all," and adds that he should not like to have to tell how a helmet was lent to Sims so that he could pretend he had knocked Cooper down.

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W. W. Jacobs

W. W. Jacobs (William Wymark Jacobs, 1863 to 1943) was an English writer born in London, the son of a wharf manager. He drew on that dockside world for comic stories of sailors and night watchmen, though he is best remembered for the chilling tale "The Monkey's Paw."