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Rh The author lays down his pen here.

To tell the truth, he wanted to continue the story, with a description of the boy’s wish to ascertain who ‘that customer’ was, or of visiting him at the address which had been given to the senior clerk. The boy actually did visit the address that was given, but to his great astonishment he found that the number and address given was a small shrine dedicated to a Fox­ god … In this way the author wished to continue his story, but thinking that such an ending would be rather unkind to the boy, he decided to discontinue.