Then I set myself to solving the question , `` How am I to get out of this predicament ? '' It did not seem easy to solve it . `` Shall I scream , William Adolphus ? '' I demanded of that intelligent animal . William Adolphus shook his head . This is a fact . And I agreed with him . `` No , I shall not scream , William Adolphus , '' I said . `` There is probably no one to hear me except Alexander Abraham , and I have my painful doubts about his tender mercies . Now , it is impossible to go down . Is it , then , William Adolphus , possible to go up ? '' I looked up . Just above my head was an open window with a tolerably stout branch extending right across it . `` Shall we try that way , William Adolphus ? '' I asked . William Adolphus , wasting no words , began to climb the tree . I followed his example . The dog ran in circles about the tree and looked things not lawful to be uttered . It probably would have been a relief to him to bark if it had n't been so against his principles . I got in by the window easily enough , and found myself in a bedroom the like of which for disorder and dust and general awfulness I had never seen in all my life .
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