Word: steve
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...returned to my pipe for consolation. I was miserably restless. The clock struck twelve, - hollow, resounding strokes, every one of which increased my nervous expectation. I felt that I must do something; I took up my hat and coat, and was about to start off myself in search of Steve, when I heard a brisk, firm step on the stair, and the missing man himself entered. He came in radiant and glowing with exercise...
...think so, do you?" He began to execute an intricate double shuffle on the carpet, quite unmindful of our neighbors beneath. This was a most extraordinary performance for Steve, usually a very quiet and modest fellow. I began to suspect that he had imbibed too freely on his way to Arlington...
...occupants of the other rooms did not hear it. Suddenly it ceased, and there was a knock at the door. That knock broke sharply across my nerves; I felt a horrible sensation of ghostly terror which I tried in vain to repress. I did not rise; I motioned to Steve to answer the summons. He smiles quietly, - even contemptuously, I thought, - and opened the door. There was no living person in sight. But that mocking laugh broke out again...