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by English author M.R. James
First published in the short story collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904
Mr. Somerton succeeds in solving the riddle that surrounds the hidden treasure of the enigmatic Abbot Thomas. He finds the treasure buried deep within a monastery well. Unfortunately, he finds something else besides. Something waiting there for him...