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? ? ? ? "When I discovered the character of the house, I would have left but for two reasons. First, I had no other home; next, I had become acquainted with the secrets of the house, and they would have feared that I would reveal them. I should incur great risk. So I stayed."
? ? ? ? Here there was a sound below. The woman started.
? ? ? ? "Some one has come," she said. "I must go down I will come up as soon as I can with the rest of your supper."
? ? ? ? "Thank you. You need not hurry."
? ? ? ? Our hero was left to ponder over what he had heard. There was evidently a mystery connected with this lonely house a mystery which he very much desired to solve. But there was one chance. Through the aperture in the closet he might both see and hear something, provided any should meet there that evening.
? ? ? ? The remainder of his supper was brought him by the same woman, but she was in haste, and he obtained no opportunity of exchanging another word with her.
? ? ? ? Frank did not learn who it was that had arrived.
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