![]() ![]() Moreover not a few ago there had slinking through the vestibule a dark little man with a large box under his arm, who he knew full well could have been none other than Godfather Drosselmeier. In a whisper betokening the strictest secrecy, Fritz informed his younger sister (she had just turned seven) that from early morning onwards clicking and clanging and faint hammering sounds had been heard in the locked rooms. Marie and Fritz sat cowering in a corner of the parlor at the back of the house the gloom of late dusk had already set in, and they were genuinely terrified in the utter absence of the light customarily afforded by the diurnal hours. Stahlbaum the public health officer were expressly forbidden to enter the drawing room, let alone the adjoining stateroom. All day long on the twenty-fourth of December the children of Dr. ![]()
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