Chapter 12 MARKHEIM[ ] (1884)

[* From "The Merry Men." Used by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons, authorized American publishers of Stevenson's Works.]

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)

[Setting. There is no finer model for the study of setting than this story affords. It is three o'clock in the afternoon of a foggy Christmas Day in London. If Markheim's manner an