A fascinating short story by the renowned author of The Woman in WhiteCaptain Stanwick and Lionel Varleigh are old friends, but after falling out over their attentions to Bertha Laroche, they fight an illegal duel in Herne Wood. Stanwick, wrongly convinced he has killed Varleigh, goes mad and attempts to kill himself with a razor ... when his supposed victim returns like an apparition from the dead.