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twinkling all my body stricken to quivering jelly by the sudden
clamour of that awful summons ! So I inquired about this thing;
asked what resulted usually 1 if the watchman died, and the restored
corpse came and did what it could to make his last moments easy ?
But I was rebuked for trying to feed an idle and Mvolous curiosity
in so solemn and so mournful a place; and went my way with a
humbled crest.

THE MAX'S EYES OPEXED SLOWLY.
Next morning I was telling the widow my adventure, when she
exclaimed—
1 Come with me! I have a lodger who shall tell you all you want
to know. He has been a night-watchman there/
He was a living man, but he did not look it. He was abed, and
had his head propped high on pillows; his face was wasted and
colourless, his deep-sunken eyes were shut; his hand, lying on bis
breast, was talon-like, it was so bony and long-fingered, The widow