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Thank you, said Strange, with more than a tinge of his old sarcasticmanner, but I believe I was hoping for something a little more immediate inits effect. From the first moment of setting off from the Old Ship he was in acuriously nervous condition, beset by unexpected ideas and half-formed fears. The sad bell sounded much clearer in the wood than it had in London andStephen followed the sound along the path. But surely no one would deliver any thing in the middle of a storm! Andeven if any body had been so fooli

Stephen Black sank into a chair and passed his hand across his forehead. ms, but it is so long since any magic was practised inthese islands that I dare say what we have been taught is full of errors andmisconceptions. There is no doubt that the caricatures and malicious paragraphs in thenewspapers did the cause of English magic considerable damage. an to talk of the magical significance of bells:how bells were used as a protection against fairies and