And yet somehow on that particular night, whether it may have been the slight excitement produced by my little adventure or not I know not, but I slept much more lightly than usual. It has been a standing jest in the family that nothing could ever wake me during the night. “I am usually an extremely sound sleeper. I remarked to her, however, before I fell asleep, that the cottage was now occupied, to which she returned no reply. I determined to say nothing about the former to my wife, for she is a nervous, highly strung woman, and I had no wish that she would share the unpleasant impression which had been produced upon myself. All evening, though I tried to think of other things, my mind would still turn to the apparition at the window and the rudeness of the woman. Annoyed at the churlish rebuff, I turned my back and walked home. ‘I see that you have only just moved in, so I thought that if I could be of any help to you in any-’ “ ‘Ay, we’ll just ask ye when we want ye,’ said she, and shut the door in my face. The Yellow Face “ ‘I am your neighbor over yonder,’ said I, nodding towards my house.
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