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NECROMANCER.
"Who art thou?" he roared in a terrible accent, flinging his pipe on the grass and starting up."
"A murderer like thyself—but only a beginner."
"He gazed at me and took up his pipe."
"Thou art no inhabitant of these districts," he resumed, at length."
"I am; hast thou heard of Wolf, the innkeeper, at A———?"
"He started up as if frantic, exclaiming in a rapturous accent, 'Wolf the inn-keeper, who has been punished so severely for game-stealing?"
"That very man I am."
"Welcome, comrade, a thousand times welcome!' he exclaimed, shaking me joy-"fully
