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Chapter 36 Gathered Threats

Promptly at the hour named, I made my appearance at Mr. Grace's door. I found him awaiting me on

the threshold. I have met you, said he gravely, for the purpose of requesting you not to speak

during the coming interview. I am to do the talking, you, the listening. Neither are you to be

surprised at anything I may do or say. I am in a facetious mood. He did not look so.

And may take into my head to address you by another name than your own. If I do, don't mind it.

Above all, don't talk. Remember that. And without waiting to meet my look of doubtful astonishment,

he led me softly upstairs. The room in which I had been accustomed to meet him was at the top

of the first flight. But he took me past that into what appeared to be the Garrett story,

where, after many cautionary signs, he ushered me into a room of singularly strange and unpromising

appearance. In the first place it was darkly gloomy, being lighted simply by a very dim and

dirty skylight. Next, it was hideously empty, a pine table and two hard-backed chairs set face

to face at each end of it, being the only articles in the room. Lastly, it was surrounded by several

closed doors, with blurred and ghostly ventilators over their tops, which, being round,

looked like the blank eyes of a row of staring mummies. All together, it was a la gubriest spot,

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