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5 9 Re rer, od 2 ae _ a ‘i, Suir ase r2 we ‘ta A ~ anry) (2 ¥ aNnA }ooked mMoYrtn and mine south -. It was a very hot summer and ‘oom being oppresively sultry I took advantage of my Mother's absence to sleep in her room , which was much cooler than mine. [The second day after my Mother's departure on being called in the mornings the head-footman who attended on me , I asked 1im wi he had looked in during the night as I-had awakened for a minute by someone open the door. He expressed he had not been in the room, but he been entered by 4 - ae: ae Ep eek 4 = aacama aly P +lRar 2 17 cs a traces OF rtnmear ViSIt lf tae pasement > wnere tney nac AnSUucc= reply to a question he assured me that as far as they had been able to ascertain nothing had been taken,in fact that no injury been done beyond the smashing of a glass panel in the door ta I rose at once, dressed in a hurry, summoned the servant torether and cross-examined them to the best of my ability. © a KH © oe oa i) 1. 2) @ c -. » | A >) " 169) 2) ran Ss Oo Ke 3 ie CF a Me © i rh c > ct only seventeen years of ase and having had no experience of an) = 1 . } > a o - =_—e ~ $0 a las occurrence of the kind before , Il was altogether unfit to deal me a merab: onee. tn at there was be, tfor. ib) was incredible that burglars having effected an entranc Into the nor , and apparently not having been disturbed , should have left it empty-handed. Another strange feature of the —Isiness Wasethate l2shomad nave be the only person awakened, and that the door of my room should have been opened with some object