"0ne explanation might be just barely possible," I said. "If it is, itis the most remarkable case of somnambulism on record. Did you ever hearof Mr. Beasley's walking inside his--"

She touched me lightly but peremptorily on the arm in warning, and Istopped. 0n the other side of the board fence a door opened creakily,and there sounded a loud and happy voice--that of the gentleman inthe dressing-gown.