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MISS FIRMAN

I confess with all humility that at times the line
of demarcation between truth and fiction is
rendered so indefinite and indistinct, that I
cannot always determine, with unerring certainty,
whether an event really happened to me, or whether
_I_ only dreamed it. -- LONGFELLOW.
MR. BYRD, upon waking next morning, found himself disturbed by a great perplexity. Were the words then ringing in his ears, real words, which he had overheard spoken outside of his door some time during the past night, or were they merely the empty utterances of a more than usually vivid dream?