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The Copper Box

fairly settled on the pillow, and at once dropped into a sound slumber. I have no idea as to what time it was during the night when I woke suddenly and sharply, to find a man standing at my bedside, and, by the light of a bull's-eye lantern, looking down on me with a half-shrewd, half-whimsical expression.