`` Mr. Hyde is gone , '' she announced . `` Gone ! Do you mean he is dead , Susan ? '' `` No , Mrs. Dr. dear , that beast is not dead . But you will never see him again . I feel sure of that . '' `` Do n't be so mysterious , Susan . What has happened to him ? '' `` Well , Mrs. Dr. dear , he was sitting out on the back steps this afternoon . It was just after the news came that the Armistice had been signed and he was looking his Hydest . I can assure you he was an awesome looking beast . All at once , Mrs. Dr. dear , Bruce Meredith came around the corner of the kitchen walking on his stilts . He has been learning to walk on them lately and came over to show me how well he could do it . Mr. Hyde just took a look and one bound carried him over the yard fence . Then he went tearing through the maple grove in great leaps with his ears laid back . You never saw a creature so terrified , Mrs. Dr. dear . He has never returned . '' `` Oh , he 'll come back , Susan , probably chastened in spirit by his fright . '' `` We will see , Mrs. Dr. dear -- we will see . Remember , the Armistice has been signed .
And XXXXX reminds me that Whiskers-on-the-moon had a paralytic stroke last night .
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