The light had gone out when I was in the hall.

Probably the body seen to fall on the hall floor was some other coat which I had flung there to get more easily at my own.
I cannot account for the bell; but perhaps the gentleman in the Haunted Chamber dreamed that part of the affair.

I had put on the overcoat before reascending; indeed I may say that next morning I was surprised to find it on a chair in my bedroom, also to notice that there were several long streaks of candle-grease on my dressing-gown.

I conclude that the pistol, which gave my face such a look of triumph, was my brier, which I found in the morning beneath my pillow.

The strangest thing of all, perhaps, is that when I awoke there was a smell of tobacco-smoke in the bedroom.
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