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"
I
have
come
to
the
conclusion
that
for
the
proper
carrying
out
of
what
we
will
call
our
Great
Experiment
we
must
have
absolute
and
complete
isolation
.
Isolation
not
merely
for
a
day
or
two
,
but
for
as
long
as
we
may
require
.
Here
such
a
thing
would
be
impossible
;
the
needs
and
habits
of
a
great
city
with
its
ingrained
possibilities
of
interruption
,
would
,
or
might
,
quite
upset
us
.
Telegrams
,
registered
letters
,
or
express
messengers
would
alone
be
sufficient
;
but
the
great
army
of
those
who
want
to
get
something
would
make
disaster
certain
.
In
addition
,
the
occurrences
of
the
last
week
have
drawn
police
attention
to
this
house
.
Even
if
special
instructions
to
keep
an
eye
on
it
have
not
been
issued
from
Scotland
Yard
or
the
District
Station
,
you
may
be
sure
that
the
individual
policeman
on
his
rounds
will
keep
it
well
under
observation
.
Besides
,
the
servants
who
have
discharged
themselves
will
before
long
begin
to
talk
.
They
must
;
for
they
have
,
for
the
sake
of
their
own
characters
,
to
give
some
reason
for
the
termination
of
a
service
which
has
I
should
say
a
position
in
the
neighbourhood
.
The
servants
of
the
neighbours
will
begin
to
talk
,
and
,
perhaps
the
neighbours
themselves
.
Then
the
active
and
intelligent
Press
will
,
with
its
usual
zeal
for
the
enlightenment
of
the
public
and
its
eye
to
increase
of
circulation
,
get
hold
of
the
matter
.
When
the
reporter
is
after
us
we
shall
not
have
much
chance
of
privacy
.
Even
if
we
were
to
bar
ourselves
in
,
we
should
not
be
free
from
interruption
,
possibly
from
intrusion
.
Either
would
ruin
our
plans
,
and
so
we
must
take
measures
to
effect
a
retreat
,
carrying
all
our
impedimenta
with
us
.
For
this
I
am
prepared
.
For
a
long
time
past
I
have
foreseen
such
a
possibility
,
and
have
made
preparation
for
it
.
Of
course
,
I
had
no
foreknowledge
of
what
has
happened
;
but
I
knew
something
would
,
or
might
,
happen
.
For
more
than
two
years
past
my
house
in
Cornwall
has
been
made
ready
to
receive
all
the
curios
which
are
preserved
here
.
When
Corbeck
went
off
on
his
search
for
the
lamps
I
had
the
old
house
at
Kyllion
made
ready
;
it
is
fitted
with
electric
light
all
over
,
and
all
the
appliances
for
manufacture
of
the
light
are
complete
.
I
had
perhaps
better
tell
you
,
for
none
of
you
,
not
even
Margaret
,
knows
anything
of
it
,
that
the
house
is
absolutely
shut
out
from
public
access
or
even
from
view
.
It
stands
on
a
little
rocky
promontory
behind
a
steep
hill
,
and
except
from
the
sea
can
not
be
seen
.
Of
old
it
was
fenced
in
by
a
high
stone
wall
,
for
the
house
which
it
succeeded
was
built
by
an
ancestor
of
mine
in
the
days
when
a
great
house
far
away
from
a
centre
had
to
be
prepared
to
defend
itself
.
Here
,
then
,
is
a
place
so
well
adapted
to
our
needs
that
it
might
have
been
prepared
on
purpose
.
I
shall
explain
it
to
you
when
we
are
all
there
.
This
will
not
be
long
,
for
already
our
movement
is
in
train
.
I
have
sent
word
to
Marvin
to
have
all
preparation
for
our
transport
ready
.
He
is
to
have
a
special
train
,
which
is
to
run
at
night
so
as
to
avoid
notice
.
Also
a
number
of
carts
and
stone-wagons
,
with
sufficient
men
and
appliances
to
take
all
our
packing-cases
to
Paddington
.
We
shall
be
away
before
the
Argus-eyed
Pressman
is
on
the
watch
.
We
shall
today
begin
our
packing
up
;
and
I
dare
say
that
by
tomorrow
night
we
shall
be
ready
.
In
the
outhouses
I
have
all
the
packing-cases
which
were
used
for
bringing
the
things
from
Egypt
,
and
I
am
satisfied
that
as
they
were
sufficient
for
the
journey
across
the
desert
and
down
the
Nile
to
Alexandria
and
thence
on
to
London
,
they
will
serve
without
fail
between
here
and
Kyllion
.
We
four
men
,
with
Margaret
to
hand
us
such
things
as
we
may
require
,
will
be
able
to
get
the
things
packed
safely
;
and
the
carrier
's
men
will
take
them
to
the
trucks
.
"
Today
the
servants
go
to
Kyllion
,
and
Mrs.
Grant
will
make
such
arrangements
as
may
be
required
.
She
will
take
a
stock
of
necessaries
with
her
,
so
that
we
will
not
attract
local
attention
by
our
daily
needs
;
and
will
keep
us
supplied
with
perishable
food
from
London
.
Thanks
to
Margaret
's
wise
and
generous
treatment
of
the
servants
who
decided
to
remain
,
we
have
got
a
staff
on
which
we
can
depend
.
They
have
been
already
cautioned
to
secrecy
,
so
that
we
need
not
fear
gossip
from
within
.
Indeed
,
as
the
servants
will
be
in
London
after
their
preparations
at
Kyllion
are
complete
,
there
will
not
be
much
subject
for
gossip
,
in
detail
at
any
rate
.
"
As
,
however
,
we
should
commence
the
immediate
work
of
packing
at
once
,
we
will
leave
over
the
after
proceedings
till
later
when
we
have
leisure
.
"
Accordingly
we
set
about
our
work
.
Under
Mr.
Trelawny
's
guidance
,
and
aided
by
the
servants
,
we
took
from
the
outhouses
great
packing-cases
.
Some
of
these
were
of
enormous
strength
,
fortified
by
many
thicknesses
of
wood
,
and
by
iron
bands
and
rods
with
screw-ends
and
nuts
.
We
placed
them
throughout
the
house
,
each
close
to
the
object
which
it
was
to
contain
.
When
this
preliminary
work
had
been
effected
,
and
there
had
been
placed
in
each
room
and
in
the
hall
great
masses
of
new
hay
,
cotton-waste
and
paper
,
the
servants
were
sent
away
.
Then
we
set
about
packing
.
No
one
,
not
accustomed
to
packing
,
could
have
the
slightest
idea
of
the
amount
of
the
amount
of
work
involved
in
such
a
task
as
that
in
which
in
we
were
engaged
.
For
my
own
part
I
had
had
a
vague
idea
that
there
were
a
large
number
of
Egyptian
objects
in
Mr.
Trelawny
's
house
;
but
until
I
came
to
deal
with
them
seriatim
I
had
little
idea
of
either
their
importance
,
the
size
of
some
of
them
,
or
of
their
endless
number
.
Far
into
the
night
we
worked
.
At
times
we
used
all
the
strength
which
we
could
muster
on
a
single
object
;
again
we
worked
separately
,
but
always
under
Mr.
Trelawny
's
immediate
direction
.
He
himself
,
assisted
by
Margaret
,
kept
an
exact
tall
of
each
piece
.
It
was
only
when
we
sat
down
,
utterly
wearied
,
to
a
long-delayed
supper
that
we
began
to
realised
that
a
large
part
of
the
work
was
done
.
Only
a
few
of
the
packing-cases
,
however
,
were
closed
;
for
a
vast
amount
of
work
still
remained
.
We
had
finished
some
of
the
cases
,
each
of
which
held
only
one
of
the
great
sarcophagi
.
The
cases
which
held
many
objects
could
not
be
closed
till
all
had
been
differentiated
and
packed
.
