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Supper'll be on the table the minute ye come down. Ye'd better take this
lamp, sir, and thar's another one in the upper hall. I expect ye two is
brother and sister. Ye're alike as two pins of different sizes."
"You're right," said Ralph, holding up the lamp, and looking about him;
"but please tell me, where are the stairs?"
"Oh, yer open that glass door right in front of ye," said the woman. "I'd
go with yer, but I smell somethin' bilin' over now."
Opening the glass door, they saw before them a narrow staircase in
two flights.
"Stairs shut up in a room of their own," said Ralph, as they ascended.
"Did you ever see anything like this before?"
"I never saw anything like anything before," said Miriam, in a low,
reverent voice.
On the floor above they found another wide hall, and four or five
open doors.
"There is your lamp," said Ralph to his sister; "take the first room you
come to, and to-morrow we will pick and choose."
"Who would have thought," said Miriam, "that a woman--"
"Don't let us think or talk of her now," interrupted her brother.


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