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The Allen House

CHAPTER IV
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Mrs.Allen received me at the door of the chamber with a frightened countenance.

On inquiry as to the cause of his condition, she informed me that he had gone to his own room about an hour before, a little the worse for a bottle of wine; and that she had heard nothing more from him, until she was startled by a loud, jarring noise in his chamber.

On running up stairs, she found him lying upon the floor, insensible.
I looked at her steadily, as she gave me this relation, but could not hold her eyes in mine.

She seemed more uneasy than troubled.

There was a contused wound just below the right temple, which covered, with its livid stain, a portion of the cheek.


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