kindand were these
black-cloaked old men really professors of the black art?
These surmises were passing through my mind as my eye glanced into a
chamberhung round with all kinds of strange and uncouth objects;
implements of savage warfare; strange idols and stuffed alligators;
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bottled serpents and monsters decorated the mantelpiece; while on
the high tester of an old-fashioned bedstead grinned a human skull
flanked on each side by a dried cat.
I approached to regard more narrowly this mystic chamberwhich
seemed a fitting laboratory for a necromancerwhen I was startled
at beholding a human countenance staring at me from a dusky corner. It
was that of a smallshrivelled old manwith thin cheeksbright
eyesand gray wiry projecting eyebrows. I at first doubted whether it
were not a mummy curiously preservedbut it movedand I saw that
it was alive. It was another of these black-cloaked old menandas I
regarded his quaint physiognomyhis obsolete garband the hideous
and sinister objects by which he was surroundedI began to persuade
myself that I had come upon the arch magowho ruled over this magical
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