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of amazement escaped our lips. In place of the opening through which we had passed not an hour since, there stood facing us a stretch of solid wall. And not a newly built wall, either. The mortar was set as hard as iron; long festoons of dusty cobwebs hung from the discolored bricks, showing that they had not been disturbed for ages.

We could only stare at each other speechlessly.

"Were we dreaming or drunk when we passed through that door last night?" asked Kinnaird after a pause that seemed to have lasted hours.

Moved by a sudden thought, I stepped to the window and threw it open. Leaning out, I looked along the outside surface of the wall. Our room abutted on a vacant site, and where the room of the previous night had been there was nothing but empty air! But, looking closer, I perceived unmistakable traces that the house had once formed a wing of a much larger building, which had been demolished. I turned my eyes downward; stared—rubbed my eyes—and stared again.

The sun was rising bright and clear behind the peaked gables of the surrounding houses, and by its light I saw that I was looking down on the serried rows of broken and time-stained stones which are all that remain to mark the site of New Place—the last home of William Shakespeare.

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