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But when I turned again the street immediately about me was empty.

The beggar-man was gone.

And down the pavement, moving swiftly through the curtain of fog,

I saw his vanishing figure. It was large and spreading. In the fringe of

light the lamp-post gave, its upper edges seemed far above the ground.

Someone else was with him. There were two figures.

I heard that sound of piping far away. It sounded faint and almost flute-like in the air. And in the mud at my feet the money lay—spurned utterly. I heard the last coins ring upon the pavement as they settled. But in the room, when I got back, the body of Terence O'Malley had ceased to breathe.

A Prisoner in Fairyland: Sequel to The Education of Uncle Paul

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