This was included as speculative fiction as it's classified as one of E. F. Benson's “Spook” stories. In this story a bank employee embezzles a small amount from a customer. The customer notices something is not right and asks for the branch manager. The employee sees this and leaves. For a few days he's missing but then is found dead in a sluice. It is unknown if he fell in by accident or drowned himself.
First appeared in The Tatler (25 March 1927) (source: "Sources" list on pages 301-302 of Fine Feathers and Other Stories)
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| 1994 |
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Fine Feathers and Other Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | 271 |
| June 1995 |
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Fine Feathers and Other Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | 271 |
| April 2003 |
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The Face | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | 165 |
| March 2012 |
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The Face | Ash-Tree Press | Collection | |165 |
| March 2020 |
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The Outcast and Other Dark Tales | The British Library | Collection | 165 |
| March 2020 |
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The Outcast and Other Dark Tales | The British Library | Collection | |165 |