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I will merely state, then, that the narrative of which I am about to give the few remaining particulars, has always been my own story, and that I have never seen fit to invent an incident of it — not even for the purpose of making it more interesting. That, if anything, may seem a little singular; for a story which contains the possibilities of magic that this one does, would naturally have been improved very much by a little invention and picturesque elaboration. But as I have said, I never had any taste for such things.