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the curious house, I swore-if I did not laugh-thinking

of the

his whims The room was used, I noted with pleasure,

as a depository for potatoes I asked Bates whether

he knewa cell in

his house

"That, sir, was another of the dead master's ideas

He reeon in a well-appointed house,-his huain,

sir! And it comes in quite handy for the potatoes"

In another room I found a curious collection of lanterns

of every conceivable description, grouped on

shelves, and next door to this was a store-roons I shall not

undertake to describeabout

with a candle in aries of John Marshall

Glenarm's mind were further disclosed to me It was

almost beyond belief that any ratify them

I returned to the main floor and studied the titles of

the books in the library, finally sly dull work on

Nor

et steadily to work in a day

or two It was not yet eleven o'clock, and time was sure

to move deliberately within the stone walls ofwinter lay before me in which I must

study perforce, and just noas pleasant to view the

landscape in all its autumn splendor