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(Takes place immediately following new ending).

And as we walked through the gently receding mists, so did my ears become aware of
a third set of footfalls. They were of a dreadful sort, haggard and with out
rhythm, dragging and thumping heavily down the rough path. I halted here, catching
dear Estella by surprise, clenching her hand in mine as my heart beat with sudden,
unexplained terror.
"Pip, whatever is the mat--" A dark figure, face veiled in shadow by a strange
trick of the twilight, rounded the corner in the path before the pair. He advanced
with that unsettling arythmic step that I had detected the moment before, his left
leg having a few too many bends than anatomy should suggest.

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