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"Good evening, sir!" he said, in a strange, hurried sort of way,

"the ht"

And his voice, i at odds with his

clothes

"Why do you stand and peer at me?" said I sharply

"Peer at you, sir?"

"Yes, from behind the tree, yonder" As I spoke, he craned his

head towards me, and I saw his pale lips twitch suddenly "And

why have you dogged e?"

"Why, sir, surely there is nothing so strange in that I am a

shadow"

"What do you mean by 'a shadow'?"

"Sir, I am a shadow cast by neither sun, nor ht Sir, it is my fate

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everywhere without friends or kindred I have been, during the

past year, all over England, east, and west, and north, and

south; within the past week, for instance, I have travelled frohton back again