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and after a while she opened the window wider . But her candle flared , and the flame tossed wildly about , and the perplexed lady feared it might go out absolutely . So she shut down the window altogether ; for she could not bear the ill-omened baying any longer . So it grew to be past two o'clock , and she was afraid that Barney would be very angry with her for sitting up , should he return . She went to bed , therefore , where she lay only more feverish -- conjecturing , and painting frightful pictures , till she heard the crow of the early village cock , and the caw of the jackdaw wheeling close to the eaves as he took wing in the gray of the morning to show her that the business of a new day had commenced ; and yet Barney had not returned . Not long after seven o'clock , Dr. Toole , with Juno , Cæsar , Dido , and Sneak at his heels , paid his half-friendly , half-professional visit at the Mills . Poor little Mrs. Nutter was much better -- quiet for her was everything , packed up , of course , with a little physic ; and having comforted her , as well as he was able , he had a talk with Moggy in the hall , and all about Nutter 's disappearance , and how Mrs. Macan saw him standing by the river 's brink , and that was the last anyone near the house had seen of him ; and a thought flashed upon Toole , and he was very near coming out with it , but checked himself , and only said -- ` What hat had he on ? '