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 "Who art thou?" he roared in a terrible accent, flinging his pipe on the grass and starting up."

"A murderer like thyself—but only a beginner."

"He gazed at me and took up his pipe."

"Thou art no inhabitant of these districts," he resumed, at length."

"I am; hast thou heard of Wolf, the innkeeper, at A?"

"He started up as if frantic, exclaiming in a rapturous accent, 'Wolf the inn-keeper, who has been punished so severely for game-stealing?"

"That very man I am."

"Welcome, comrade, a thousand times welcome!' he exclaimed, shaking me joy-