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Ilethre I tell lay story, it will be well for
me to make it perfectly clear that it is a
perfectly true one. Ae a lad, and as a young
man, neither ghosts nor tho idea of ghosts
ever troubled Inc. I heard Orange storiee
of them, told with all the vivid description
which would tend to fr1ghten eleep away-
-told, too, when the wind wr-E1 bowling
side, the rela pettoriog against the wiadowe,
and the only lighe vietble that which found
ite way through the obinke in the shatters
to the "pitch-dark"- outside -told when
everybody wes ready fcr bed. But they
never disturbed my slumbers. I could
listen to any number of them at any time,
•and they never had any effect on ine In
fade I disbelieved them thoroughly, and
though I could not doubt tho veracity of the
narrator I always regarded them as the out-
come of a stroug imagination, or the reeult
of too heavy and too late dinners!. A white
tombstone in a churchyard 414 net frighten
me on a very dark night, nor did the mys-
terious movements of a donkey whiah had
broken into it cause me to stare, as he moved
in the darkness in and out among the graves,
eta that I was thoroughly unprepared for
anything like fer nominal experience, sad
Considered myself one of the lest pens=
likely to be affeeted by anything like a
ghostly manifestation.
But now to my dory, 'which 'Shall tell
eimaly a the Weir took place, leaving it to
the reader to draw his or herown orieeeeiee.
And to meke it ;mite latelligible 1 meet
explein the plea of the haute where it Up-
peried. The home iteelf was a large enee
built of brick, and wise what le celled a
"0..4;9 that le, Obeid no ropier npaoteirs
rooms, though over the ceiling there wee
great dot of room under tile roof ; mod the
lower inol4e walls had been. coaled up to the
roof to opport It, a doorway being Merle to
get from one PAO to the other, "Xioe wells
were thick and the doors and. 'random were
made of heavy hard weed. There was not a
,gene of glom in the home and loath doom
and winclowia-exe:ope two l doors, ef whlch
more promotive -Wore (ideated byeaneeuelly
strong iron Inane. My wife and le -for my
tete was with me and shared all my mover.
ieneese-alweye entered the house by. the big
doorway leading We the largo ifeancirceler
p_orch, where or plenums were kept.
Venting on.wo came to the pamage. Going
along thie we came first of all to the doer
on our left head, opening tnto the dining
Teem. an our right, directly oppeelte thia
dieing room door, was another door, ee the
foot ot a circular stairome, in the thick well
leadiag up to the empty epee* under the
roof. Straight in front of no was the door
loading into the greet Central reeeptionirOOM
evhioh eantalmed no furniture except 50
armoire, Deb% and a few chain. There was
a Urge front doer to this room but It wits
seldom open, and we rarely malt, our vhdt.
ors coming mostly through the porch and
passage. Going farther on Wel Mae to ear
bed room, whieheenteined only our bed, a
*reveling chest of drawer's, whit& serve4 as
a demoting table, a washstand and one or two
°halm Loading out from this was another
roam which we did not use, simply became
we did not need it.
And nova must call your ettontioa to our
bedroom door. It was Merle of wood,
the lower hell being pencilled, but the
upper hall was Atted with: framework to
rerlellre panes of glass, Which bed not yet
been inserted. Tim door had neither look
nor holt, There Was only an iron dog,
hauging loosely, by which the door could be
pulled te. But it could. not be closed, for
at the bottom, ohm to the aide on 'which the
hinges worked, it caught Against the sill,
width had not been auffielently planed
away to allow the door to shut ptoperltr,
aratreeo it was always ajer, and could very
comity be *Wizen backward and forward,
as itworked on the place where it eaughe ;
awl in oinking, the iron ring, to which I
have referred, e clattered against the door,
making a groat nolo in a more or 1034
.empty large house.
The only remark I have to make about tho
other door leading up into the spiral stair
-
use, is that iblopened outwards, and was
simply fastened by an ordinary door Utah.
The affair of wild). I em writing took
place in a largeisland in the Ent far away
from Cenatia-in a country full of ghostly
stories, and equally full of a belief in all
kinds of ghostlynaanifestations. Ihad heard,
but had taken no notice of them. The
native town to which we had gone in search
of health contained very few foreigners and
fewer acquaintances; consequently wo had
to " shiftier ourselyee and with the email
ammount of luggage we took with us found
our home in this large house, whi.th we
rented from a native. We liked it ; the air
was fresh, very pure and bracing; medical
help was at hand, and with our cook and
servants and my pupils we settled in. The
house was surrounded by its own grounds,
and the kitchen as usual, stood away by
itself.
f`Please, sir, we are afraid to go 1 he seid Account or I must confess 0 hoPo
n a trembline voice. lately puzzled, and, without being alarmed,
".Afraid, my boy 1" I exclaimed in see_ wes certainly very uncomfortable. What
rise; "afraid a what? Tilers nothiog was the noire.? Who or Whet made itt The
nobody here to laerm yea; whatare you, Irian ring made diet awful banging, hut what
"ct f ?"• caused the clatberitg sound and the furious
"They are afraid, eir 1" chimed in the
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maid.
"Afraid of what r 1nein demanded,
"Have you eeen any thievee abeete"
"No, sir," elle relied; •"but they see
of!ald tie go;" and that welt all I could gob
out of her,
"Come along. boya 1 and doe'b be mere
children," 1 said to encourage them,; "the
light le ready for you, and the hellee will bc'
safely fastened up tee 11/141,"
47111,43, eir,u Field oue of them, john by
name ; "but we are afraid. LeSt night--;"
"What I inquired in wonder.
"Last night, dr," he went on to say,
tf there were fearful nolwa up-etaire where
we sleep, We heard men fightiog, and we
trembled -e--"
"Rousseau l" I cried. "Code, wimit did
you give the boys fer their ',tuner 144
Dtglit
'Only beef end rico, sahib," he replied;
46 the same as they always have."
"And no mere ? nothing else ?"
"No, Sehito,'
"Theo you beye were dreamiug or heard
the rate, I heard nothing feed saw nothing,
Se, eome along r
I went into the house and they followed
me. Oe reaching the door at the foot d the
acratcineg I So gen% into tho dieing -room I
called to the maid by,uame, and said ;
" Are you awake?:
"Yes, sir," washer reply ; and she reified
herself on her mattress and threw back the
cloth le whioh, She had enveloped her heed,
" Why are you, awake" I inquired ; "
too can't sleet). Rave you heard the reds
riming about?"
shtsil not forget the look she gave Me as
I held the small lamp near her and its light
lit up her dark fem. But the eYeS seemed
to light up of themselves, and a look of die --
gusted veeminees crept over her features.
"}WI" she exclaimed. "That's not rats,
and I an,afraid. I heard them, r
"Heard what „I' 1 asked. "11 the sound
did not come from frolicsome rats, what
made it? 'There are no people In the house
except ourselves, and the boys are un-stArli
Won."
"They Ath spirits 1" she exclaimed, "1
heard them, and a row they have been mak.
ing. I have been Retelling to them -but I
kept mg head covered, for fear. I heard
them rushing with a kind of noiseless step
to your door; *boa ecratehing and rattling
; teen I beard them rush 'emit to the dem
Attlee foot of the stake and rattle, rattle
awey at the latch: then bade to your room
" Why?' 1iequired,
4, Tell hint, Jolan,'• said one of them ; Whilst
tha other broke in. " Although you com-
ree.nd us to sleep up there again, we can nob.
We are Wiled with fright l°
"What is it I again inquired.
Thee /dm spoke.
"Ib was awful, sir, and We Gantlet hear It.
Ib was thie. What we heard the utglithefore
last we also heard last night, lx111 le was fer
woree. There were, as it seemed to us, two
men up stairs engaged in a fierce atrugyle.
They seemed, to be ia the middle of the
home, wider the rod, and they fought
deeperetely. We hued a kind Of whieper.
lug, quarreling, as it were, but we heard no
words. It seemed as if one wite wearing
bootie an.1 the other weenot. Theo ti/ii one
wearing hoots ran, and. the other ran atter
haelewmde and forward, backwards
and forwards, all In the dark ; down they
re% 'local the staite, and we beerd them
rattling the latch as if they wanted, to get
out. Beek then they would come, and nigh
spiral staircase I gave them their lantern agate, beekward and forward, backward
(Poe an open geed* for fear of fire) and doh and forward, They Imo been making a
of them again exclalmed ; row. They API opirits, and I with they
" We ere afraid, sir 1 we mon not Sleep up would rest, for 1 went to eleep 1"
there," "Se do I," I replied, Stilt her word*
" Noreenee, boy* I" I replied, firmly ; rather abiggered me. Yet amonet for thme
46 there is nothing there worse than your. =ism on any ether bypotheale 1 meld not,
aolveel 1 AM down below, and the maid sleeps Bat Writs 1 and le mg own Immo, 0,0 dm
In the dielus room right neder you; thereto to the heed of any bed I Strange ; but what
Welt it? I wise in wide toweee as poseible.
nothing to ceuae leer, so go along."
witeout Another woo, they tgag the Un. gVerY ftlealtY Wee le good workiog order,
tern, and Med off up Metro. WW1 the laet and now the uttfrr dieheltof ot Team gone
bed gone I carefully latehed the deer, elkie byWAS toba rnde*mani X thought Tor/
the Meld WO her eleeplog guertere under rude of them no to intrede on my root and
the ilining-room tablel=mined all "the hate peace; of mind -shattered.
as neuel and went aito bed. The meld threw her cloth over her hoed
I told my wife whet had hepponed, and again and retired under the table; but her
she put it down to nightmare on tite boys' room, too. Was inIctOnellti Of any thing cap.
part. However, it paned out of our heads, able ofbeing turned to aceount for musing
We always kept a light burning in oer room the redo.
at night -a mall hand perafflee lamp. This Again I returned to my room but would
was kept on the cheat of drawers ageinet the not Pell my wire whet the meldsaid. (eolith
wag oppogeto tem foot of tea beg, ea wipe elletiRn for Me to hevemy OWle thelighni OP
Of Mile I turned le down very low, and got the matter without disturbing her poem of
into bed, with my head as need trite oleo tele&
to the dem. It wee A small room, rather, " Eowever," 1 thottglit to myself, "If
and the lied gem eneeet up to the Immo of I Men, pot a Mop to this I will, It Ion
the doer. Meantime, I had, of MVO, pull. only get tide door over the bed piece
ed the door to, as far am it would go, but et the bottom, whoever or whatever they
mold not actuelly glom it, so it hung ejsr at IneY he won't he *Me to =eke it
the place where It ought the filth Tbs. eliake amide, and we shell be mired all the
framework for the glen we bed covered, with clatter. So with it. groat effore flitted the
A cattalo. door so a* to bring lt over the mem pi
1 was tired otta 814 to got oomo rest and and thou witha Strelig Ida I oloafid ir tight)
latmPs More particularly se I was just re- at lute .
overbill/ I tom a very the* attack ot * week. "Now shake its if you our I thought,
emus etee,e egragio vory soon vitae off .and, turning down the Imp curie mere,
to deep, soundly, aud I quickly followed her. went off to bed.
The IMMO WAS perfeetly (pleb, and I wee Vain hope of pow i The enemy, whoever
foe asleep, veer, or whatever the enemy was, monad to be
1' Seratoh, sereteh, eeratela 'wretch, rattle. simply infuriated with my etterope to balk
rattle, bang, huge rattle, rattle, herig, him, for no fowler efee my heed on my
orate!), I" and up I tamped, uprighb in bed, pillow again then the gereteldng was renew.
my wife jumping up at the sem° moment. ed with tenfold vigor, as if the very door
In an instant ell tho blood in my body seem. WOuld be torn to &me It was .Imply
ed to curdle, my face grew pale and cold, awful, and 1 seemed to exped to hear
end we Ituitantly asked mob of the other In shrieks of anger added to the frightfal,
a whisper: matching. I sat up in bed eind looked
"What's that?" at the door. It could not, and did note
Scretoh, aerate], seratoh, math, rattle, reeve, and the iron ring hung motionless;
rattle, Nog, bang, bang, rattle:, soratob, hut down in thet fey corner the: poor
eoratoh, aeratoh, at the doe:realm to my head panel rimmed to be the point of &thole of
as it &thousand oats were aoratohina and a thousand fiends, Suddenly I cried orit
tearing away furiously at one of the lower in the natwa tongue
pewee, and clio vibration of the door mused "Be quite, and listen. 0 ye, 'whoever
the loosely hanging iron ring to make a fear. and whatever ye are," and, ;strange to say,
ful din as it was breught in contact with the no sooner did 1 begin to speak than
wood. perfect silence -dead silence -reigned.
We listened-breathlosel A penes I Only Listen, 0 ye, whoever and whatever
for two mooed; however, and then It set off ye are," I continued, "for I don't
again &watch, aoratoh, tattle, bn eng, ben1 know; only youraelves know. Ye are
"What 1, 11?" I inquired of my wife, freo to come to my hones and 'visit me du -
"1 don't know,' she replied -ane was all leg the daytime, but now it is night. I am
of a tremor ; but "Thin won't do," thought tired and want to sleep, so get yo to your
Daul out I sprang from boa, the noisehouses I If ye bo friends, speak 1 if ye be
meanwhile continuing with unabeted fury, not, depart; or if yo will nob depart,
and I rushed to the lamp and turned ib up, quite and enjoy yonreelves in peace, for I
Instantly the noise ceased 11 scarcely aura am tired and want: to sleep. So good
ed to think what to be about -if burglars night 1"
were in the home 1 was powerleile &gland Alas? my libble address had. no efface.
them -if rho noine were of supernatural Quite the contrary 1 At lb they went again
origin, what then ?-if the result of some and 1 pitied the poor door. If they scratch!
cleverly designed plan to frighten us, it ed furiously before,now they seemed to
must be exposed. These thoughts seemed tear away
at mercilessly. How they did
to Rash through my mind, and., Attic& as peg away at it 1 and the noise was almost
thought, I slipped on my dressuig.gown, deafening. However, there teemed to be
seized the lamp, and made for the door. It nothing more to be done. I had been out
was as I had left it exactly I I puehed it and examined everything. All was safe. I
open, and went out into the big central bed used plain words and words of perms -
reception room which tho small lamp sion, and lihey had no effeot. So I gave up
scarcely lit up, 1I looked behind the door in simple despair, and lefe the "spirits" to
where the sounds came from, and there was their own sweet pleasure.
nothing ! Next I went carefully to everyIt was now long past midnight, and quite
door and window, looked into every corner, tired and worn out I dropped off to sleep to
examined the armoire, everything was fas- the music of the seratohing and tearing close
tweed, the house was perfectly silent -there to my head. Uneasy sleep it was, and in
was nothing! the very early morning I woke to the ;sweet
I went back to my room. music of the scratching which still continn-
"Hue you aeon anything ?" my wife ask. ed 1
ed me. "I must find out what it is, if loan!" I
"No," I replied; "everything is fasten- thought. Just then I heard the door in the
ed, and just as we left he Ie is etrange." porch ab the other end of the house open'so
I turned down the lamp again, and got I knew some one was going out. Is the
into bed, wondering all the time what; it myetery about to be solved? No, for the
was and what it meanie and little inclined scratching mill continued with unabated
for sleep. fury 1 There was the attack on the panel
No sooner was my head on the pillow still going on au hard as ever. But the open
than- door allowed a certain amount of light to
Soratoh, soratoh, scratch, bang, bang, get through to our door, and I thought I
clatter, ()latter, bang !began again. would avail myself of it.
I fiew out of bed, hurried into my dress. "I'll catch you this time !" I thought.
ing gown, turned up the lamp, again sallied "11 there be springs or trap door, wires or
forth, and with the same remit. Instantly string I'll see what they are."
the noise stopped! All was quiet ; every So whilst the noise was still progressing I
door and window was eafely bolted -all es 1 very quietly and noiselessly drew myself up
left it I Bat, thinking that, perhaps, the in bed, ready for a spring, 1 stretched. out
natives might be playing tricks on us, 1 ex my left hand and pushed aside the curtain
amined the neighborhood of the door, over the frame for the glass in the door very
whenoe the sounds came, very, very carequietly and cautiously, sprang out of bed;
fully. There was no string, no wire either and in lees than half a oecond my head was
at top or bottom, or nail to which it could through the opening for one of the pahes,
be attached. The wall, every inch of whioh I and I was gazing at the place whence the
examined, was solid as bricks could niake it. sound came, and narrowly searching for
The door? I examined that, too. It was a something, though what I did not know.
beautiful door, inlaid with different kinds of But quick as I had been, it or they had beau
wood, forming an artistic pattern. Every as quick, for no sooner was my head through
bit of wood was in its place -there was no the opening than the noise ceased. There
trap-door, 110 sign of interference of any was no wire or string to be seen, no trap -
kind. Hence there was no trickery, or oun- door of any kind; a moue could not haee
ningly devised Mealle of frightening me out got away; all wise silent.
of my wits as well as out of bed. I was pee- "1 on not understand it," I said to my
ded and beaten 1 Again I went off to bed, wife. "Bab I shall get up now and go for
after turning down the lamp, and again, no your early coffee."
sooner was my head on the pillow than- I partially dreesed, put on my dress-
' ing•gown, threw open the windowe, and
was going out to the kitclaen to • get
the usual morning coffee for my wife,
when, just as I got opposite the door bead-
ing to the spiral utairoase, I met the boys
coming down. I saw at once there Was
aomething wrong. The poor boys' faces
were gloomy and of a pallid hue -there was
nob the usul cheery " Good•morning, sir" -
and depression and even arxiety seemed to
be written on their countenances.
"How have you slept, my boys?" I in-
quired of them -and they knew absplutely
nothing of my night's experience.
"Slept, air r they inquired in return, in
astonishment; we have not dept. Row
could we?" '
Great Cry for More Women 1
good many years. BO the ory le not for
pale, lzaggard, debilitated women, The
pushing western rnea are not anxious for
beauty, but they need healthy wives. .great
cry for health is contitutelly going tip from
thousands Id weinee, young and old Allover
the earth.. 0:maim remedies have ap-
peared in answer. A few have succeeded,
and pone hold a higher play than Dr.
Pieretee Fevorite Preeeriptien, a Aare enre
for all those peculiar weakeepese" aol
dietreesing ailtriente peculiar O the ilex.
The race is not always to tbe fleet, bemuse
Eornetimes etorm keeps the fleet at anchor.
When everything elee feilie DA $3130
Patarrit Remedy eines.
As a rule the rieh love to display their
wealth, exeept wben the aseeesor comes
mound,
Get well and stay well. Rut how shall WO (10
has bon going up from the tar west for a
it?
°°:11 rillazteucltraeYthwe7°uP114484edOttheaanitir w4arlgigalye fulerYtfleraletnrecil tattelsra, ttbheerree nosecretel:rot:11;
again, and we heard the weisperiog sound;
then again they weuld rna ; the one wearing
boots ran first, then the other atter him.
DOWD. they would run, down the Maio
again, rattle the lateb, and I was tereibly
frightened," the poor boy added, almoat cry.
Ing "for once as they were going down one
of teem seized my leg and dragged me half
way down. Hie bend* were like ice," he
add, drawing his ahotilders together, and
shiveriale at the remembrance, bat he let
go and crewied heel; te plane agaim
tremblieg. Thia went en for 'mg tinee.
Thee, they fought egein, and at UM tee Mle
withoat bode threw detwu the one with
hoota ; he ehea derma 41;040, then fell hint
sell. Thee All Was DOW."
It Was strange, ;ma ,I, Wee Went, Whet
to think I knee` Dor, ner do 1 to thie day.
The other beye manned John'e stetement,
audeteod logeleg frightened and aorely puz.
zled. I PRI perfectly Certain that I wee neli
miotehee ; the meld. bad heard the extraor.
;Beery nude, the movereente of epirite°
downstairs, aridlho rattling ot the letoli
ad now eonfirmatioa comee from the boys
of something ueganny, Ia the full deed -
light of day I exavained every inch of well
and dem near that doer, hut their wae
uelther mark on it, nor piece for striver,
wire, or trap door near it. All wee perfeee.
I meutioned tide extraordthery effair to
deoter aeer, And he and his wife ar
anged to *Imp la the -house with tui the
next night. We *pane the evening at hie
house, and wo ell weet to oar CM» about 9
p, Sitting outeide, round, the door el the
porob, I found my servant, together with
the ten el the landlord, to wham I had sent
word el the effeir.
"Well, lads," I said, es we approached
them, "lame you seen or hoard anythin e"
The isndioas SOU ;
"Wo hinni not WA anything, but whilst
wo hew been sitting here we heard 4 sound,
A9 of emu, out) having hurled A big stone
egainot your bettroom door."
"Wu any One In the house 1"
"No, sir," they all ammered,
WO Went In And exeralued overyth
found neither stone nor mark.
The clootor Ind I turned down on g% (mule
of mattress:ail In the reception room on t
floor, oppoeito the front door. Ilia wife
alept with mine; and the boys had, *gale
oneepateirs withthe rnotasetvaute and the
andloriVe eon, feeling safe in their eonmentr.
The (looter soon fell mleop, bet I kept ;make.
At shout 11 p, m. I hoard a, steady march
over me of ono -only one-merching heck.
werde and forwerde. Th1s was kept on at a
eteedy peat till 12. Then there was &indent'
hang at the frout deer as of a huge atone
having been hurled' against It. There wee
then a howling of doge and then all wu
quiets'. I heard. nothing more, neither did
those up -stair* but, that was tho lasb night
I slept in that'house, Others tried to live
there afterward, but had to leave, What
was ib
Now for a bit of history by way of ex.
plenetion, if it can be explained, Toe King
of the country hod A few getwe bolero beea
assmaineted-etraneled, WAS entwined
in lag plan, and an full drew; an he was,
*haled from room to room by the amanain,
until at leogth he tried to find safety in bid.
ing among the ?Afton, job under the roof,
Frain hie hiding place be was dragged and
slain.
The actual regicide died in the haute
where I lived, on a bedstead close to the
door whence all the noose proceeded -he
died tbere about three menthe before I took
the house, within three yards of where my
pillow was! 01 this fact I was not then
aware,
loan only- ask, How kit to bo explained?
and add that this story is absolutely true in
every reaped,.
Cr,Ennt'uxtr.
We were simply on a visit ; we did not
burden ourselves with unnecessary hard.
tare, but were content with buying what
few things we needed, and servants and
pupils did not add much to our burden, for
during the day they were all engaged in
one way or another, and, provided they had
a fairly comfortable mat or mattress on
which to lie, did not oere very much
where they slept. Conk, a swarthy son of
Madras, guarded his kitchen and cooking
utensils at night; my pupils curled up on
their mattresses upstairs, in the "zoom"
•at the top of the spiral staircase tinder the
roof; and my wifeer mail slept under the
lining room table on her, mattress; which
was iemoved every morning the first thing
:and breeglit in,thi3 last thing at night. I
.always saw them all se.fely in the 'louse,
.and go eaoh to his or her , own apartment,
.before retiring myself, and made my
nightly peactioe to see that all the doors
and windoVre wee securely bolted -for we
,did nob care to lose the few things we had
with ns, which in such a far aliatant place
could not easily be replaced. '
The few days we had pawed in the house
had passed pleasantly and the nights undis-
turbed, eave by the howling of dogs outside,
when one night our pupiss were later than
usual in coming in to retire for the night.
I went out to look after them, and found
them and the maid all gathered round the
bright fire in the kitchen, busy in amusing
and intereking 'conversation. Their eyes
were glistening in the -firelight, and their
laugh was very hearty, •
"Come, boys" I eaid it is time for you Saratoh, scratch, scratch, bang, bang, oat -
to be going to rest now. And you," to the ter, clatter, bang 1 It went again.
maid "bring in your mattress, for ib is "That's right 1 Go it r 1 cried, air I again
sprang out of bed.
" getting tiresome, though, "1 paid
to my wile; "1 can't make it out! Bat if I
can only get hold of the evil -doer, he shall
feel this," for I felt angry at the continued
disturbance, and seizing a huge stick with
one hand, and the lamp with the other, ent
I went again. But the noise ha e etoPped as
quickly an before, and again all was quiet.'
Again 1 examined every window and door -
all were safely fastened
It then struck me that perhaps, as the
noise was so terrifio and peouliar, pos-
sibly my wife's maid had heard lo, or could
V,
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night." -•
there was a dead silence.
The laughter was hushed; gloomy counten-
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move, except the maid. I may here say that
the boys' ages ranged from about 10 to 14.
"Come, boys 1" I repeated, "come along;
it's time for going to rest now; why do you
wait ?"
Still there was no answer.
"Are you not tired ?" I inquired.
Then one vouchisafecl an answer.
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