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I was aroused in the night by a growling in Miss Fielding's room. Wide / awake in an instant, I sat up in bed and listened intently, but I had / not had time to get up before I heard a short, angry yelp, and then / Nokomis' footsteps pattering out of the room and going down-stairs in / hasty jumps. I struck a match and looked at my watch. It was a quarter / past two o'clock. I knew well enough, then, that Edna would take Miss / Fielding's place in the morning. It was much as if a ghost had entered / the house and lurked in the darkness. For a long time I was too / agitated to sleep.
The next day was cool and cloudy. I found a fire burning in the library / when I went down-stairs and Leah was there, putting the room to rights. / She looked up at me gratefully, as if it were a consolation to her to / have some one to depend upon.