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 ed Inn, and prohibited every nocturnal disturbance, apprehending the whole artifice would be detected, but just as I was going to leave T, without having attempted any thing, the cowardice of that officer gave me an opportunity of executing my design."

"His comrades, chicken-hearted like himself, proposed to watch with him in the haunted house, and their imagination played them a trick which, most unexpectedly, favored the execution of my plan."

"They had watched already three successive nights, without either hearing or seeing any thing uncommon; the fourth night a tempest was raging, without their perceiving it, being prevented from doing it by the great quantity of punch they had swallowed, and the roaring noise which was the natural consequence of their inebriation."

"When they entered the room, after having been frightened by the howling of the