Nobody! Raps and dancing lasted through most of the night and began again at ten in the morning.

The ladies were incommoded and complained of broken sleep.

Mr.Shchapoff, hearing all this, examined the miller, who admitted the facts, but attributed them to a pigeon's nest, which he had found under the cornice.

Satisfied with this rather elementary hypothesis, Mr.Shchapoff sat down to read Livingstone's African Travels.

Presently the double shuffle sounded in the loft.