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"'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a

few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a

quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the

centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel

Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the

door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and

vanished into the darkness.