"The Uncle of an Angel" "The Aztec Treasure-House" "The Passing of Thomas" "In Old New York" etc. Old Jaap Visser was mad. Out there on the island of Marken, in the Zuyder Zee, he was the one madman, and a curiosity. The little boys--all born web-footed, and eager as soon as they could walk to toddle off on their stout little Dutch legs and take to the water--used to run after him and jeer at him. An underlying fear gave zest to this amusement. The older of them knew that he could lay a strange binding curse upon people. The younger of them, resolving this concept into simpler terms, knew that he could say something that would hurt more than a spanking; and that would keep on hurting, in so…
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