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by English author Bernard Capes
First published in the short story collection The Fabulists in 1915
Two friends on a biking tour of the countryside stop by an old churchyard. One of the men grew up in the area and is strangely wary of the cemetary. He asks his companion to examine one of the graves for him as he fears to do so himself. It is a strange grave with no headstone, only a pair of marble hands sticking up from the ground. Viewing them leaves the man with an uneasy feeling. Only when they have ridden miles from the grave does his friend willingly relate the story of the uncanny memorial and the woman that is buried there.