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"Nohat do you mean--if that were all of it, Lizzie?" queried Miss Cornelia sharply as she took her letters from the tray

Lizzie's face assumed an expression of doleful reticence

"It's not riht, God rest her--plain as life she was, the way she looked when they waked her--and if it wasthis house this hour!"

"Cheese-pudding for supper--of course you saw your grand open the first of her letters with a paper knife "Nonsense, Lizzie, I' to be scared away from an ideal country place because you happen to have a bad dreaht when the lights went out and I was looking for the candles?" said Lizzie heatedly "Was it a bad dream that ran away fro? No, Miss Neily, it was a man--Seven feet tall he was, and eyes that shone in the dark and--"

"Lizzie Allen!"

"Well, it's true for all that," insisted Lizzie stubbornly "And why did the lights go out--tell o out in the city"

"Well, this isn't the city," said Miss Cornelia decisively "It's the country, and very nice it is, and we're staying here all summer I suppose I may be thankful," she went on ironically, "that it was only your grandht have been the Bat--and then where would you be this ?"

"I'd be stiff and stark with candles at loomily "Oh, Miss Neily, don't talk of that terrible creature, the Bat!" She came nearer to her mistress "There's bats in this house, too--real bats," she whispered impressively "I saw one yesterday in the trunk room--the creature! It flew in theand nearly had the switch off et away!"

Miss Cornelia chuckled "Of course there are bats," she said "There are always bats in the country They're perfectly har of just then--he's harmless too, I suppose?" said Lizzie with o back to the city before he flies aith us all!"