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The ain with the flint and steel As

the sparks fell thick and bright about him, I could see his hands, and

touches of his face, and could

over the table; but nothingon the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and

showed me Orlick

Whom I had looked for, I don't know I had not looked for hierous strait indeed, and I keptreat deliberation,

and dropped the match, and trod it out Then he put the candle away from

him on the table, so that he could see me, and sat with his arms folded

on the table and looked at me I made out that I was fastened to a stout

perpendicular ladder a few inches from the wall,--a fixture there,--the

means of ascent to the loft above

"Now," said he, e had surveyed one another for soo!"

"Ah!" he returned, "I'll let you go I'll let you go to the ood time"

"Why have you lured me here?"

"Don't you know?" said he, with a deadly look