- When three learned men (a doctor, a lawyer and a priest) debate a young woman's recent suicide, they are joined by a fourth man with intimate knowledge of the case.
- A man on a train tells to his fellow passengers the curious, creepy and compelling story of a young dancer dying of consumption and possessing slowly the body of a sturdy,dim-witted peasant girl,permitting so to her spirit a perennial life.—igorlongo
- Three learned men: a canon, a lawyer, and a physician. the latter two knights of the realm, are traveling home by night train after the doctor has delivered a lecture about dual personality and a most singular suicide, a young woman who apparently used her own hands to strangle herself to death. As the three men debate the circumstances of this bizarre case, they are joined in their compartment by a fourth, Gerard Letardau. a reporter who had covered the conference for his paper. He confesses he knew the victim very well and had met her when he was consigned as a teenager to an upscale orphanage. There he became close to two of the orphaned girls, Felicie Bault, the plain, strapping, healthy, but slightly backward young girl who killed herself, and Annette Ravel, a beautiful, talented coquette diagnosed with incurable consumption. Felicie's mother had been murdered by her father in a drunken rage while Annette's had died of tuberculosis. Both Felicie and Raoul become infatuated with the willful and spiteful Annette, who, through flirtation, contempt, and indifference plays their affections for her against each other. Even though she died years before Felicie's suicide, Andre tries to convince his fellow passengers that Annette played a hand in Felicie's death.—duke1029@aol.com
- Three acquaintances are traveling in the same compartment on the overnight train to Edinburgh. Sir Campbell Clark, a medical doctor, recounts the case of Felicie Bault, a woman with multiple personalities. He had recently given a lecture on the case in London where his conclusion, along with that of several colleagues, is that she strangled herself. His friends, barrister Sir Michael Durand and clergyman Canon Parfitt are interested in learning more about the case. It is the fourth man in the compartment who tells the tale however. He is Raoul Letardau, a journalist who attended Clark's lecture but has a different perspective on the case as he grew up with Felicie Bault. Felicie was a quiet and not very pretty girl growing up in the same orphanage as he. Her social skills were limited and she chafed under the star that was Annette Ravel, a beautiful young girl who was everything that she was not. Letardau believes that Annette was responsible for Felicie's death - even though Annette was long dead well before Felicie's strangulation.—garykmcd
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