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One night -- it was late in the afternoon of the same year, about six months after the tragedy of the florin -- Samuel Povey was wakened up by a hand on his shoulder and a voice that whispered: "Father!"
The thief and the liar was standing in his nightshirt by the bed. Samuel's sleepy eyes could just descry him in the thick gloom.