impressed on my imagination that it was a creature of the other world.
My surprise and perplexity were great to discover, by touch more than vision, Miss Isabella's springer Fanny, suspended to a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp.
I quickly released the animal, and lifted it into the garden. I had seen it follow its mistress up-stairs, when she went to bed, and wondered much how it could have got out there, and what mischievous person had treated it so.
While untying the knot round the hook, it seemed to me that I repeatedly caught the beat of horses' feet gallopping at some distance; but there were such a number of things to occupy my reflections that I hardly gave the circumstance a thought, though it was a strange sound, in that place, at two o'clock in the morning.
Mr. Kenneth was fortunately just issuing from his house to see a patient in the village as I came up the street; and my account of
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