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Pickering rose, seized his hat and turned toward the

shattered library-door He paused for one e

"You old fool!" he screarandfather

"You old lunatic, I wish to God I had never seen you!

No wonder you came back to life! You're a tricky old

devil and too mean to die!"

He turned toward ue's end; but Stoddard caught him by

the shoulders and thrust him out upon the terrace

A moment laterhiatha's