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John Marshall Glenarm had probably never been so

happy in his life as on that day of his ahed with us, and

as he went about the house explaining his plans for its

completion, he chaffed us all with his shrewd humor

that had been the terror of my boyhood

"Ah, if you had had the plans of course you would

have been saved a lot of trouble; but that little sketch

of the Door of Bewilder I left,

-and you found it, Jack,-you really opened these good

books of mine"

He sent us all away to reave Bates a hand in cleaning up the wreckage,-

Bates, the keeper of secrets; Bates, the inscrutable and

mysterious; Bates, the real hero of the affair at Glenarh the narrow stairway by which he

had entered, which had been built between false walls,

and we played ghost for one another, to show just how

the tread of a hu around the chirandfather's

contrition for having placed me in so hazardous a predicament

was so sincere, and his wish to make amends

so evident, that my heart warmed to him He made me

describe in detail all the incidents of ht to my adventures