Trinket woke next morning with a dull pain in his chest and a weakness in all his body, attributable, he at once realized, to the two blows, one with the hand and the other with the foot, which Old Hai had dealt him the night before. Struggling with some difficulty to his feet, he saw that there was a large bloodstain on the upper part of his gown. He took the gown off and put it in the water-butt to soak. While he was giving the bloodstained part a few rubs, he was greatly surprised to see pieces of the material floating off into the water. He took the gown out again and held it up to look. To his astonishment he saw two large holes in the breast of it, one shaped rather like a hand and one like a foot. 'But… but… this is spooky, ' he said to himself. Spooky. As the real meaning of the word struck him, he felt the small hairs rising along his spine.

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