Ebook The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce

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.