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"There soon, however, appeared some drawbacks In the first place,

Millarca couor--the weakness that reed from her room till the afternoon

was pretty far advanced In the next place, it was accidentally

discovered, although she always locked her door on the inside, and never

disturbed the key from its place till she admitted the maid to assist at

her toilet, that she was undoubtedly so, and at various times later in the day, before

she wished it to be understood that she was stirring She was repeatedly

seen frorey of the

h the trees, in an easterly direction, and

looking like a person in a trance This convinced me that she walked in

her sleep But this hypothesis did not solve the puzzle How did she

pass out fro the door locked on the inside? How did

she escape fro door or ?

"In the ent kind

presented itself

"My dear child began to lose her looks and health, and that in a manner

so htened

"She was at first visited by appalling drea Millarca, so round the foot of her bed, from