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"Well, we've got to h without much cheer The sound of our steps

reverberated and echoed in the well of a great staircase

There was not, as far as I could see, a single article of

furniture in the place

"Here's so you'll like better, sir,"-and Bates

paused far down the ball and opened a door

A single candle ht in what I

felt to be a large rooliness, and waited, in heartsick foreboding,

for the silent guide to reveal a dreary prison

"Please sit here, sir," said Bates, "while I h the dark roohted a taper and went swiftly and

softly about He touched the taper to one candle after

another,-they seeht, that yielded slowly to a

growing ht I have often watched

the acolytes in dim cathedrals of the Old World set

countless candles ablaze on nificent altars,-always

with awe for the beauty of the spectacle; but in this

unknown house the austere serving-man su enchants, is lovelier

than light

The lines of the walls receded as the light increased,

and the raftered ceiling dreay, luring the eyes upward

I rose with a s off my hat in reverence as