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outside in the lane, staring up at mySo firmly was I

convinced of this that, moved by a sudden i the , peered out And there, sure

enough, his feet planted wide apart, his hands behind his back,

stood aup at myHis head was thrown back so

that I could see his face distinctly a fleshy face with sht the glea, white teeth This was no tinker, but as I looked, I

recognized him as the slenderer of the two "Corinthians" with

whootthe fellow hanging

about a dilapidated hedge-tavern at such an hour But gradually

rew less coherent, my eyes closed, and in another

moment I should have been asleep, when I suddenly ca, for I had heard two sounds, the

soft creak of aopened cautiously near by, and a stealthy

footstep outside my door