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The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, Cricket On the Hearth, Battle Of Life
& The Haunted Man & the Ghosts's Bargain with Illustrations.

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370
THE HAUNTED MAN
Redlaw released his hold, as he listened.
" I have feared, from the first moment," he murmured to himself, " to meet her. There is a steady quality of goodness in her, that I dread to influence. I may be the murderer of what is tenderest and best within her bosom."
She was knocking at the door.
"Shall I dismiss it as an idle foreboding, or still avoid her?" he muttered, looking uneasily around.
She was knocking at the door again.
" Of all the visitors who could come here," he said, in a hoarse alarmed voice, turning to his companion, " this is the one I should desire most to avoid. Hide me !"
The student opened a frail door in the wall, communicating where the garret-roof began to slope towards the floor, with a small inner room. Redlaw passed in hastily, and shut it after him.
The student then resumed his place upon the couch, and called to her to enter.
"Dear Mr. Edmund," said Milly, looking round, "they told me there was a gentleman here."
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