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A Strange Disappearance

CHAPTER VII
11/20

Even the school children had disappeared in some one of the four or five houses scattered in the remote distance.
If I was willing to enter upon any daring exploit, there was no one to observe or interrupt.

I resolved to make the attempt with which my mind was full.

This was to climb the old tree, and from one of the two or three branches that brushed against the house, gain entrance at an open garret window that stared at me from amid the pine's dark needles.
Taking off my coat with a sigh over the immaculate condition of my new cassimere trousers, I bent my energies to the task.

A difficult one you will say for a city lad, but thanks to fortune I was not brought up in New York, and know how to climb trees with the best.

With little more than a scratch or so, I reached the window of which I have spoken, and after a moment spent in regaining my breath, gave one spring and accomplished my purpose.


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