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Mr. Gilder arrived at his cottage in the evening and found his "tenant" sitting on the doorstep smoking a pipe. Fortunately, the cottage was in the middle of a thin plantation of trees, and the river at the back made an approach from that direction impossible. Nevertheless, Mr. Gilder was alarmed at the lack of precaution the man showed.
"If you're going to stay here you've got to keep inside the house. I tell you I don't want people to know that you're living here. Now, what is the big news?"