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"You are not going--there?" he whispered, frowning and nodding

towards the house

"Yes"

"Don't!" he whispered, "don't! An evil place, a place of, sin and

shadows, of sorrow, and tears, and black despair Ah, an evil place!

No place for Barnaby Bright"

"I oes in, and leaves his youth behind; oes in, and creeps

out--to a grave Hear ht There is one within there

already marked for destruction Death follows at his heel, for evil

begetteth evil, and the sword, the sword He is already doomed

Listen,--blood! I've seen it upon the door yonder,--a bloody hand! I