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and it seemed to her that his eye sockets were extraordinarily
hollow. He put on his spectacles again, and then turned and faced
her. She was about to complain of the straw on the floor when he
anticipated her.
"I wish you wouldn't come in without knocking," he said in the tone
of abnormal exasperation that seemed so characteristic of him.
"
"
I knocked, but seemingly--"
Perhaps you did. But in my investigations--my really very urgent
and necessary investigations--the slightest disturbance, the jar
of a door--I must ask you--"
"Certainly, sir. You can turn the lock if you're like that, you
know. Any time."
"
"
"
A very good idea," said the stranger.
This stror, sir, if I might make so bold as to remark--"
Don't. If the straw makes trouble put it down in the bill." And he
mumbled at her--words suspiciously like curses.
He was so odd, standing there, so aggressive and explosive, bottle
in one hand and test-tube in the other, that Mrs. Hall was quite
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