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- lodgers under the same roof with him, and none caring to be so bold as
to question him as to the reason of it, or to ask what it was on his
body, a drug was enlisted as a means of finding out the secret. In
prudent quantities it was slyly slipped into his huge bowl of tea at
supper. Next morning a certain old-clothes-man whispered to his gossips
the result of his sorry intrusion overnight.
Drawing them into a corner, and looking around furtively, ‘Listen,’ said
he, and told them an eerie story, following it up with shuddering
conjectures, vague enough, but dear to the superstitious and ignorant
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