see him.' And he went to find the stranger. He met his wife in the
passage. 'The carrier's dog bit him,' he told her.
He went straight upstairs, pushed open the stranger's door and
went in.
The blind was down and the room dark. He caught sight of a
strange thing, a handless arm that seemed to be waving towards
him, and a face of three large dark spots on white. Then he was
struck in the chest and t