Late one night, Phoebe hears "the murmur of an unknown voice" which is "strangely indistinct" and resembles "unshaped sound" (95). ... Furthermore, Phoebe hears this at an "uncertain" time of night as if "through a thin veil of a dream" (96). ... His description of the seated judge at once affirms our suspicions and supplants them-the narrator notes that, as we observe the judge, "his breath you do not hear" (268), an observation that seems to only logically make sense if the judge is indeed dead. ...

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