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 “No — nobody hurt me,” panted the other, — “only. . . Aa—aa!”. ..

“—Only scared you?’’ queried the peddler, unsympathetically. “Robbers?”

“Not robbers, — not robbers,” gasped the terrified man. . . . “I saw. . .I saw a woman — by the moat;— and she showed me .. . Aa! I cannot tell you what she showed me!" . ..

“Hé! Was it anything like that she showed you?” cried the soba-man, stroking his own face —which therewith became like unto an Egg. . . . And, simultaneously, the light went out. 80