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"Where is he?" I said, in so

"There, on the floor, behind you," she said, pointing with her ar her eyes I turned and looked, but

saw nothing Then with a feeling that there was yet so behind round, lay a black

shadow, the size of a ht of the la at all the intensity of its hue

"I told you," said the woman, "you had better not look into that

closet"

"What is it?" I said, with a growing sense of horror

"It is only your shadow that has found you," she replied "Everybody's

shadow is ranging up and down looking for him I believe you call it by

a different name in your world: yours has found you, as every person's

is almost certain to do who looks into that closet, especially after

one in the forest, whom I dare say you have met"