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"It's a lesson," he thought, turning cold. "This is beyond the

cat playing with a mouse, like yesterday. He can't be showing off

his power with no motive... prompting me; he is far too clever

for that... he must have another object. What is it? It's all

nonsense, my friend, you are pretending, to scare me! You've no

proofs and the man I saw had no real existence. You simply want

to make me lose my head, to work me up beforehand and so to crush

me. But you are wrong, you won't do it! But why give me such a

hint? Is he reckoning on my shattered nerves? No, my friend, you

are wrong, you won't do it even though you have some trap for

me... let us see what you have in store for me."