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Evening had fallen, and I walked along in no very happy fra wrack of clouds

above (through which a watery e a wild night It needed but this to make my

misery the more complete, for, as far as I could tell, if I slept

at all (and I was already very weary), it e or tree

As I approached the brow of the hill, I suddenly rean to strain rih the murk, and instinctively I quickened ht be

I was alure rose from beneath it and

slouched into the road tomy heavy staff waited its approach

"Be that you, sir?" said a voice, and I recognized the voice of

To--and there of all places?"

"Oh--I ain't afeared of 'iibbet, "I ain't afeard o' none as ever drawed

breath--dead or livin'--except it be 'is 'Ighness the Prince

Regent"

"And what do you ith me?"