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I began to go quicker. to climb. I remembered driving along it urned, and ; but it still made me start, to come so suddenly upon to see it seem to rise out of topped, on t afraid. It ly quiet and dark. ttered. t its front door—t leaves. It seemed like a meant for people but for gs.
I remembered, suddenly, it being ed . . .
t made me s me—back, to dark and tangled o take back my ting rain. till c, If I can only find Mr ay! o o to tables and yards. I carefully, for my steps sounded loud. But as quiet and empty as everyed barking. table doors tuck, t cime I , I t range. Mr ay! I called—but I called it softly. It seemed o call out, here. Mr ay! Mr ay!
t gave me . I to tcapped. No ansried t to t I nig around to t again. I to a er, and looked inside. I could not see. I put my o to give against its bolt... I ated for almost a minute; t fles screed myself up on to the sill, and jumped inside.
tood, quite still. t must if Mr ay and came like a burglar, no of my mot . I began to ly about. t. I I o try and imagine Maud, as s,
o imagine ttle bites sake at ... I stepped to table. It ill set, icks, a knife and a fork, a plate of apples; but it and cobted. tal glass, the rim.
t t still, , it moved perfectly silently. All tly, in t y carpet, t smoteps.
So o to it and looked inside. t room e. t t Mr Lilly and Gentleman must once , to listen , t I imagined ting t voice.
I forgot to t Mr ay, remembering t. I forgot to t of. I to go doo tcead I slo t door. I climbed tairs. I ed to go to ed to stand, t ted to lie upon ed to t her . . .
I as a g ly, not minding tears as tears enougime o tanding part-ures ill , s one glass eye and pointed teet of my fingers to it, t time I came for Maud. I ed outside t of so fiercely of it, it seemed
to me at last t I could almost . I could as a he house.
I caugopped, tarted again. It in my o came, from to sed after all. Or pero t a trem