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Well , as near as I can gather , he was at his usual trick the next day after the twins arrived ; and you can imagine about what sort of music it would be , after what he had been through the preceding forty-eight hours . `` Of course I do n't know exactly what happened , but Julia -- Marie 's second maid , you know -- tells the story . She 's been with them long enough to know something of the way the whole household always turns on the pivot of the master 's whims ; so she fully appreciated the situation . She says she heard him begin to play , and that she never heard such queer , creepy , shivery music in her life ; but that he had n't been playing five minutes before one of the nurses came into the living-room where Julia was dusting , and told her to tell whoever was playing to stop that dreadful noise , as they wanted to take the twins in there for their nap . `` ` But I did n't do it , ma'am , ' Julia says . ` I wa 'n' t lookin ' for losin ' my place , an ' I let the young woman do the job herself . An ' she done it , pert as you please .