Woman or         What
it across, shredding it into small bits
which he tossed into the street.
  Now lhe would go into the country.
There lhe would forget it all. In a
long ramble dissipate this haunting
thoughlt, this nightmare which had
made horror of three past days and
ighlts.
  The electric lights had commenced
to dot the evening glimmer as he re-
turned on foot by an unfrequented
way. He was in an unknown quarter
of the town which had been his resi-
dence for twenty years; a quarter dis-
tinguished by nothing that he knew;
its houses older than any lie had
eVer seen in any other part of the
city; tlmost of them  great, square,
colonial-columined  buildings sitting
far back from the street each one in
its grove of old trees. In the course
of his saunter, curiosity led him into
a quaint old cemetery with queer,
gaunt tombstones and cellared vaults.
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