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 follow me. Having seen me throw myself into the water, he ran after me and managed to get me out."

"And did you see him again?"

"I did, poor fellow! But that is another strange incident of my too-eventful life. Perhaps I'll tell it you some other time."

"Then from the Morgue?"

"I begged to be transported to some neighbouring hospital, where I could have a private room all to myself, where I should see nobody, where nobody would see me; for I felt ill—very ill.

"As I was about to enter the carriage and go off from the charnel-house, a shrouded corpse was borne thither. They said it was a young man who had just committed suicide.

"I shuddered with fear, a terrible suspicion came into my mind. I begged the doctor who was with me to bid the coachman stop. I must see that corpse. It must be Teleny. The physician did not heed me, and the cab drove on.

"On reaching the hospital, my attendant