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The Trap.
(EXTRACT FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF JOSEPH ROULETABILLE) "Last night--the night between the 29th and 30th of October--" wrote Joseph Rouletabille, "I woke up towards one o'clock in the morning.

Was it sleeplessness, or noise without ?--The cry of the Bete du Bon Dieu rang out with sinister loudness from the end of the park.

I rose and opened the window.

Cold wind and rain; opaque darkness; silence.