"_11 August, 3 a. m._--Diary again. No rest now, so I may as well write. I am too agitated to rest. We have had such an adventure, such an agonizing experience. I fell resting as soon as I had closed my diary. Suddenly I became broad awake, and sat up, with a horrible sense of fear upon me, and of some feeling of emptiness around me. The room was dark, so I could not see Lucy's bed; I stole across and felt for her. The bed was empty. I lit a match and found that she was not in the room. The door was shut, but not locked, as I had left it..."

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