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Fireside Fridays: The Signal-Man (Part II)

Join Armistead for the second installment of a haunting three-part tale by Charles Dickens.

This story was first published in the a weekly literary magazine All the Year Round which was founded by and owned by Dickens himself.

PART II of the story:

His manner seemed to make the place strike colder to me, but I said no more than, “Very well.”

“And when you come down to-morrow night, don’t call out! Let me ask you a parting question. What made you cry, ‘Halloa! Below there!’ to-night?”

“Heaven knows,” said I. “I cried something to that effect—”

“Not to that effect, sir. Those were the very words. I know them well.”

“Admit those were the very words. I said them, no doubt, because I saw you below.”

“For no other reason?”

“What other reason could I possibly have?”

“You had no feeling that they were conveyed to you in any supernatural way?”

“No.”

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