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He beca definite in his mind He

was suspicious of the curtain itself and observed it It looked very

innocent Then just as he was ready to put it down to a trick of

i movements where the two curtains joined

Yes! So Captain Anthony He

owns artlessly that this roused his indignation It was really too onis with the dark stuff Then they grasped

the edge of the further curtain and hung on there, just fingers and

knuckles and nothing else It

at it with unaccountable repulsion when a hand ca into the larey coat-sleeve, up to the elbow, beyond the

elbow, extended trely towards the tray Its appearance eird

and nauseous, fantastic and silly But instead of grabbing the bottle as

Powell expected, this hand, trelass, rested on its edge for a moment (or so it looked froers of the other hand

vanished at the sa at the e for a

But that notion did not last long Powell, after repressing his first