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Of a sudden, he stopped, took the cork out of his bottle, and tossed

it away Light as it was, I heard it fall like a plu up the bottle by little and little, and now he looked at

me no more The last few drops of liquor he poured into the palm of his

hand, and licked up Then, with a sudden hurry of violence and swearing

horribly, he threw the bottle from him, and stooped; and I saw in his

hand a stone-ha heavy handle

The resolution I had

one vain word of appeal to hiled with all s that I

could led with all the force, until

then unknown, that ithin ures and a gleaht dash in at the door, heard

voices and tule ofwater, clear the table at a leap, and fly out into the

night

After a blank, I found that I was lying unbound, on the floor, in the

same place, with my head on soainst the wall, when I came to myself,--had opened on it before