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No doubt if the old opera-house were ever cleaned out, just such a heap of stiff, wire-strung bones would be found, in some such hole as the dugazon's dressing-room, desiccating away in its last costume perhaps in that very costume of Inez; and if one were venturesome enough to pass Allhallowe'en there, the spirit of those bones might be seen availing itself of the privilege of unasperged corpses to roam.
Then the charter was taken out of its hiding-place wherever that was and government was at once resumed under the same old patent which had disappeared so mysteriously on that famous Allhallowe'en night.
Was it done on purpose, or did a door or a window fly open and a gust of the night wind put them out? It chanced that the night was Allhallowe'en, when the old tales say that the witches and fairies and imps are abroad and busy. Were any of them busy that night with Connecticut's charter? "Two men in the room, John Talcott and Nathaniel Stanley, took the charter when the lights were out."
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