Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Halpin Frayser was not much of a philo Sopher, nor a scientist. The circumstance that, waking from a deep sleep at night in the midst Of a forest, he had Spoken aloud a name that he had not in memory and hardly had in mind did not arouse an enlightened curiosity to investigate the phenomenon. He thought it Odd, and with a little perfunctory shiver, as if in deference to a seasonal pre sumption that the night was chill, he lay down again and went to sleep. But his sleep was no longer dreamless.