“Darn my fool hide!” he grated under his breath. “I left that light burning and it’s been going all the time I was downstairs.” THE END TRANSCRIBER NOTES Mis-spelled words and printer errors have been corrected. Where multiple spellings occur, majority use has been employed. Inconsistency in hyphenation has been retained. Inconsistency in accents has been retained. When nested quoting was encountered, nested double quotes were changed to single quotes.