By Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(Part 1)

Old Doctor Heidegger was a very strange man. He once invited four friends to meet him in his office. There were three white-bearded gentlemen. Mister Med, Colonel Kilgrew, and Mister Gascone. And, there was a thin old lady. Her husband had died, so she was called the Widow White.

They were all sad old creatures. They had been unfortunate in life. Mister Med had lost all his money in a badly planned business deal. Colonel Kilgrew had wasted his b...