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john9221 · Wysłany: Wto 11:26, 01 Mar 2011

himhis notes were complete. With one hand on the cat's furand the dog's
front paws resting against his feetthe three of them dozed comfortably before the hot fire while the night
wore on and the silence deepened towards midnight.
It was well after one o'clock in the morning when Dr. Silence turned the lamp out and lighted the candle
preparatory to going up to bed. Then Smoke suddenly woke with a loud sharp purr and sat up. It neither
stretchedwashed nor turned: it listened. And the doctorwatching itrealised that a certain indefinable change
had come about that very moment in the room. A swift readjustment of the forces within the four walls had
taken place--a new disposition of their personal equations. The balance was destroyedthe former harmony
gone. Smokemost sensitive of barometershad been the first to feel itbut the dog was not slow to follow
suitfor on looking down he noted that Flame was no longer asleep. He was lying with eyes wide openand
that same instant he sat up on his great haunches and began to growl.
Dr. Silence was in the act of taking the matches to re-light the lamp when an audible movement in the room
behind him made him pause. Smoke leaped down from his knee and moved forward a few paces across the
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