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 cied I had been haunted by a bad dream.—The clock struck one as I was going to look at my watch."

"Vexed that the stranger did not come home, I went to bed, and slept 'till it was broad day. When the waiter brought my breakfast, I asked whether my neighbour was come home. He denied it. Then I asked if he perhaps had left F? The waiter answered, it may be, he always pays his bill after dinner, he carries no trunks with him, and none of his servants lodge in our house."

"I went with the waiter to the apartment which the stranger had occupied: The key was in the lock, we walked in, all was empty."

"I went back to my room, took up the drafts he had given me, and would have destroyed them, if I thus could have disencumbered myself of the obligation which I owed him. It suddenly came in my mind that they perhaps might be fictitious, or the name of