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Then he paused again and said under his breath , '' _ You _ , Judge Nickols Morris Powers ! '' He smiled at himself with humorous pity and tiptoed past me into the front hall and up the stairway to his rooms above . I seemed to feel strange padding footsteps down in my depths and I also tiptoed up to my room after I had heard his door shut . After I had switched on my light -LRB- for under the roof of the Poplars electricity had come to aid the candles of hallowed tradition , and was called by Mammy , in deep suspicion , `` ha ` nt light '' -RRB- I discovered clutched in my cold fingers the yellow envelope the romantic Mr. Pate had brought to me in the midnight . It read : `` Am coming down on Friday . Am afraid to trust the world and the flesh and think the third member of the carnal firm ought to be on the job . N. '' `` Now I am frightened really , '' I confided to myself as I slipped between the scented sheets and drew a corner of the rose-colored blanket over my head .