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Chapter V

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I had shut the door to. Then I turned ssssssssss

around, and there he was. I used to ssssssssss

be scared of him all the time, he tanned ssssssssss

me so much. I reckoned I was scared ssssssssss

now, too; but in a minute I see I was ssssssssss

mistaken. That is, after the first jolt, ssssssssss

as you may say, when my breath sort of ssssssssss

hitched -- he being so unexpected; but ssssssssss

right away after, I see I warn't scared ssssssssss

of him worth bothering about. ssssssssss

He was most fifty, and he looked it.

His hair was long and tangled and greasy, ssssssssss

and hung down, and y"ou could see his ssssssssss

eyes shining through like he was behind ssssssssss

vines. It was all black, no gray; so ssssssssss

was his long, mixed-up whiskers. There ssssssssss

warn't no color in his face, where his ssssssssss

face showed; it was white; not like ssssssssss

another man's white, but a white to ssssssssss

make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl -- a tree-toad white,

a fish-belly white. As for his clothes -- just rags, that was all. He had

one ankle resting on 'tother knee; the boot on that foot was busted, and

two of his toes stuck through, and he worked them now and then. His

hat was laying on the floor; an old black slouch with the top caved in,

like a lid. ssssssssss

I stood a-looking at him; he set there a-looking at me, with his chair

tilted back a little. I set the candle down. I noticed the window was

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