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In a low voice he begged me--
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But what was he saying?
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I could only make outpieces of his story.
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He claimed he hearda frightening scream...
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that shatteredthe silence of the night.
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He told of a family reunion...
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and of how he went searchingin the direction of the scream.
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Then the tone of his voice...
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grew almost inaudible...
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as he told the taleof a desecrated tomb...
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and a shroud-wrapped corpse,bearing the head of death itself.
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Yet it was still breathing...
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as if quickened by the heartbeatof a living being.
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Its garments were in shreds...
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and I observed that the bodywas smeared with blood.
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