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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by JOHN BUCHAN 28 Oct 1993 Scanned and proofread by Kirk Robinson <kirkr@panix.com> Version used David R.Godine-Publisher 1990 softcover edition Copyright 1915 by The Curtis Publishing Company Transcription notes: Italics thus _i_ italics _i_ Bold thus _b_ bold _b_ Underscore thus _u_ underscore _u_ accent aigu thus Rene' accent grave thus Se`vres accent circonflex thus cha^teau diaresis thus Ko"nigstrasse The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 1 The Man Who Died I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If any one had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing . . .
