The Welcome back everyone to

to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host John

Hagenorn. Today a story from an author that's

becoming one of my favorites, H.C. Bunner. This story is called A Sisterly

Scheme. Hope you enjoy it.

A way up in the very heart of Maine, there is a mighty lake among the mountains.

It is reached after a journey of many hours from the place where you go in.

That is the praise of the country, and when you have once

gone in, you know why it is not correct to say that you have gone

through the woods or simply to your destination.

You find that you have plunged into a new world, a world that has nothing in common with the

world that you live in, a world of wild, solemn, desolate grandeur, a world of space

in silence, a world that oppresses your soul and charms you irresistibly.

And after you have once come out of that world,

there will be times to the day of your death

when you will be homesick for it,

and will long with a childlike longing to go back to it.

Up in this wild region you will find a fashionable summer hotel

with electric bells and seven course dinners

and guests who dressed three times a day.

It is perched on a little flat point, shut off from the rest of the mainland by a huge rocky cliff.

It is an impertinence in that majestic wilderness and leather stocking would

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