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"The night being so bad, sir," said the watchlass, "uncoentlemen that I have named, I don't call to er asked for you"

"My uncle," I muttered "Yes"

"You saw him, sir?"

"Yes Oh yes"

"Likewise the person with hied the person to be with him," returned the watchman "The person

stopped, when he stopped to make inquiry of me, and the person took this

hen he took this way"

"What sort of person?"

The watch

person; to the best of his belief, he had a dust-colored kind of clothes

on, under a dark coat The watchht of theot rid of hi explanations, my ether Whereas they were easy of innocent

solution apart,--as, for instance, soone near this watchht have strayed to my

staircase and dropped asleep there,--and ht some one with hily look to one as prone to distrust and fear as the changes of a