The narrator is a tutor to the children of Sir John Bollamore. Sir John was a womanizer before being reformed by his wife, now deceased. But the tutor thinks his employer is not as reformed as he claims when he hears a woman's voice speaking in the old man's room.
A story which depends for a surprise ending on the reader not immediately thinking of a recording (the gramophone being new at the time). First published in the Strand Magazine, January 1899.
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| 1908 | Round the Fire Stories | The McClure Company | Collection | 84 | |
| 1908 |
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Round the Fire Stories | Smith, Elder & Co. | Collection | 85 |
| 1922 |
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Tales of Terror and Mystery | John Murray | Collection | |
| 1925 |
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The Black Doctor and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery | George H. Doran | Collection | |10 |
| June 1929 |
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The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | |
| October 1939 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | ||
| December 1940 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | ||
| December 1945 |
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The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | 609 |
| March 1949 |
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The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | |
| August 1951 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | ||
| November 1956 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | ||
| August 1960 | The Conan Doyle Stories | John Murray | Collection | 609 | |
| 1978 |
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Tales of Terror and Mystery | Pan Books | Collection | |0.10 |
| 1979 | Tales of Terror and Mystery | Penguin Books | Collection | |11 | |
| 1981 |
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O Enigma do Trem Perdido | Francisco Alves | Collection | |
| May 1991 |
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Round the Fire Stories | Chronicle Books | Collection | 53 |
| May 1996 | Tales of Terror and Mystery | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |10 | |
| February 2007 |
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Horror Story Collection 1 | LibriVox | Anthology | |5 |
| April 2013 |
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Tales of Terror and Mystery | Serenity Publishers | Collection | |0.10 |
| December 2015 |
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Round the Fire Stories | MysteriousPress.com / Open Road | Collection | |
| February 2017 | Round the Fire Stories | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |85 | |
| January 2020 |
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Tales of Terror and Mystery | Bibliotech Press | Collection | |0.10 |