THE HAND by GUY de MAUPASSANT
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 13 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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A judge tells a story of an Englishman he met who was a hunter and had in his possession a very strange hand which he kept chained to his wall. Also here: a preview of 1001 History Challenge. STORIES BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT MAUPASSANT PODCAST
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. It's Spooktober here and today |
| 0:36.9 | we bring you the hand by one of our favorite authors, Gie de Mopazant. A judge shares a creepy story about an Englishman named Sir John |
| 0:48.4 | Raoul who is hunting for a man who left his hand behind. And now the hand by Gee de Mopazant. |
| 0:58.0 | All were crowding around M. Vermouthier, the judge, who was giving his opinion about the St. Cloud mystery. |
| 1:08.0 | For a month, this inexplicable crime had been the talk of Paris. Nobody could make head or tail of it. |
| 1:15.0 | Amber Mutier, standing with his back to the fireplace, was talking, citing the evidence, |
| 1:22.0 | discussing the various theories, but arriving at no conclusion. |
| 1:27.0 | Some women had risen in order to get nearer to him, and were standing with their eyes fastened on the clean-shaven face of the judge who |
| 1:35.1 | was saying such weighty things. |
| 1:38.6 | They were shaking and trembling, moved by fear and curiosity, and by the eager and insatiable desire for the horrible |
| 1:45.8 | which haunts the soul of every woman. One of them, paler than the others, |
| 1:51.6 | said during a pause, |
| 1:54.6 | It's terrible. |
| 1:55.7 | It verges on the supernatural. |
| 1:57.8 | The truth will never be known. |
| 2:01.1 | The judge turned to her. |
| 2:03.0 | True, madam, it is likely that the actual facts will never be discovered. |
| 2:08.0 | As for the word supernatural, which you have just used, it has nothing to do with the matter. |
| 2:15.7 | We are in the presence of a very cleverly conceived and executed crime, so well enshrouded in |
| 2:21.4 | mystery that we cannot disentangle it from the involved circumstances which surround it. |
| 2:27.0 | But once I had to take charge of an affair in which the uncanny seemed to play a part. |
| 2:33.0 | In fact, the case became so confused |
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