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the hammer After several ue which I could not hear

Whatever was occurring, two or three points struck

party to an act as yet unknown; second, they

had been unsuccessful and must wait for another opportunity;

and third, the business, whatever it as

clearly of sorandfather's strange house had been

chosen for the investigation

Clearly, I was not prepared to close the incident, but

the idea of frightening my visitors appealed to htly

down, found the front door, and, from the inside,

opened and slammed it I heard instantly a hurried

scamper above, and the heavy fall of one who had sturinned with real pleasure at the

sound of this reat library,

which was as dark as a well, and, opening one of the long

s, stepped out on the balcony At once from the

rear of the house came the sound of a stealthy step,

which increased to a run at the ravine bridge I listened

to the flight of the fugitive through the wood until the

sounds died away toward the lake