The fact that Henry Armstrong was ____ did not seem to him to prove that he was ____: he had always been a hard man to ____. That he really was buried, the ____ of his senses compelled him to admit. His posture -- flat upon his back, with his hands ____ upon his stomach and tied with something that he easily broke without profitably altering the situation -- the strict confinement of his entire person, the black darkness and profound silence, made a body of evidence impossible to controvert and he accepted it without cavil. But dead -- no; he was only very, very ill. He had, ____, the invalid's ____ and did not greatly concern himself about the ____ fate that had been ____ to him. No philosopher was he -- just a plain, ____ person gifted, for the time being, with a pathological indifference: the organ that he feared ____ with was torpid. So, with no particular apprehension for his immediate future, he fell asleep and all was peace with Henry Armstrong. But something was going on ____. It was a dark summer night, ____ with infrequent shimmers of ____ silently firing a cloud lying low in the west and ____. These brief, stammering ____ brought out with ghastly distinctness the monuments and headstones of the ____ and seemed to set them dancing. It was not a night in which any credible ____ was likely to be straying about a cemetery, so the three men who were there, digging into the ____ of Henry Armstrong, felt reasonably secure. Two of them were young students from a ____ a few miles away; the third was a ____ negro known as Jess. For many years Jess had been employed about the ____ as a ____ and it was his favourite pleasantry that he knew 'every soul in the place.' From the nature of what he was now doing it was inferable that the place was not so ____ as its register may have shown it to be.Outside the wall, at the part of the grounds farthest from the public road, were a horse and a light wagon, waiting. The work of ____ was not difficult: the earth with which the grave had been loosely ____ a few hours before offered little resistance and was soon ____ out. Removal of the ____ from its box was less easy, but it was taken out, for it was a perquisite of Jess, who carefully unscrewed the cover and laid it aside, exposing the body in black trousers and white shirt. At that instant the air sprang to flame, a cracking shock of thunder shook the stunned world and Henry Armstrong tranquilly ____. With inarticulate ____ the men fled ____, each in a different direction. For nothing on earth could two of them have been ____ to return. But Jess was of another breed. In the grey of the morning the two students, pallid and haggard from ____ and with the ____ of their adventure still beating tumultuously in their ____, met at the medical college.'You saw it?' cried one.'God! yes -- what are we to do?' They went around to the rear of the building, where they saw a horse, ____ to a light wagon, hitched to a gatepost near the door of the dissecting-room. ____ they entered the room. On a bench in the ____ sat the negro Jess. He rose, grinning, all eyes and teeth.'I'm waiting for my ____,' he said.Stretched ____ on a long table lay the body of Henry Armstrong, the head defiled with blood and clay from a blow with a ____.

One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce

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