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"
I
was
afraid
that
you
might
find
it
so
,
and
that
was
partly
why
I
ran
down
.
My
young
friend
,
Dr
.
Hamilton
,
is
so
much
interested
in
the
subject
which
you
have
made
your
own
,
that
I
thought
you
would
not
mind
his
accompanying
me
.
"
"
I
lead
a
retired
life
,
Dr
.
Hamilton
,
and
my
aversion
to
strangers
grows
upon
me
,
"
said
our
host
.
"
I
have
sometimes
thought
that
my
nerves
are
not
so
good
as
they
were
.
My
travels
in
search
of
beetles
in
my
younger
days
took
me
into
many
malarious
and
unhealthy
places
.
But
a
brother
coleopterist
like
yourself
is
always
a
welcome
guest
,
and
I
shall
be
delighted
if
you
will
look
over
my
collection
,
which
I
think
that
I
may
without
exaggeration
describe
as
the
best
in
Europe
.
"
And
so
no
doubt
it
was
.
He
had
a
huge
,
oaken
cabinet
arranged
in
shallow
drawers
,
and
here
,
neatly
ticketed
and
classified
,
were
beetles
from
every
corner
of
the
earth
,
black
,
brown
,
blue
,
green
,
and
mottled
.
Every
now
and
then
as
he
swept
his
hand
over
the
lines
and
lines
of
impaled
insects
he
would
catch
up
some
rare
specimen
,
and
,
handling
it
with
as
much
delicacy
and
reverence
as
if
it
were
a
precious
relic
,
he
would
hold
forth
upon
its
peculiarities
and
the
circumstances
under
which
it
came
into
his
possession
.
It
was
evidently
an
unusual
thing
for
him
to
meet
with
a
sympathetic
listener
,
and
he
talked
and
talked
until
the
spring
evening
had
deepened
into
night
,
and
the
gong
announced
that
it
was
time
to
dress
for
dinner
.
All
the
time
Lord
Linchmere
said
nothing
,
but
he
stood
at
his
brother
-
in
-
law
’
s
elbow
,
and
I
caught
him
continually
shooting
curious
little
,
questioning
glances
into
his
face
.
And
his
own
features
expressed
some
strong
emotion
,
apprehension
,
sympathy
,
expectation
:
I
seemed
to
read
them
all
.
I
was
sure
that
Lord
Linchmere
was
fearing
something
and
awaiting
something
,
but
what
that
something
might
be
I
could
not
imagine
.
The
evening
passed
quietly
but
pleasantly
,
and
I
should
have
been
entirely
at
my
ease
if
it
had
not
been
for
that
continual
sense
of
tension
upon
the
part
of
Lord
Linchmere
.
As
to
our
host
,
I
found
that
he
improved
upon
acquaintance
.
He
spoke
constantly
with
affection
of
his
absent
wife
,
and
also
of
his
little
son
,
who
had
recently
been
sent
to
school
.
The
house
,
he
said
,
was
not
the
same
without
them
.
If
it
were
not
for
his
scientific
studies
,
he
did
not
know
how
he
could
get
through
the
days
.
After
dinner
we
smoked
for
some
time
in
the
billiard
-
room
,
and
finally
went
early
to
bed
.
And
then
it
was
that
,
for
the
first
time
,
the
suspicion
that
Lord
Linchmere
was
a
lunatic
crossed
my
mind
.
He
followed
me
into
my
bedroom
,
when
our
host
had
retired
.
"
Doctor
,
"
said
he
,
speaking
in
a
low
,
hurried
voice
,
"
you
must
come
with
me
.
You
must
spend
the
night
in
my
bedroom
.
"
"
What
do
you
mean
?
"
"
I
prefer
not
to
explain
.
But
this
is
part
of
your
duties
.
My
room
is
close
by
,
and
you
can
return
to
your
own
before
the
servant
calls
you
in
the
morning
.
"
