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The doors were wide, the story saith, / Out of the night came the patient wraith, / He might not speak, and he could not stir / A hair of the Baron's minniver -- / Speechless and strengthless, a shadow thin, / He roved the castle to seek his kin. / And oh,'twas a piteous thing to see / The dumb ghost follow his enemy! / THE BARON.
Imray achieved the impossible. Without warning, for no conceivable motive, in his youth, at the threshold of his career he chose to disappear from the world -- -which is to say, the little Indian station where he lived.