How does the word "once" help show a cause- and-effect relationship?

it wants you to read whatever it gave you. then compare it to the others you read. you need to use textual evidence, and cite anything you do!

hope this !

~courtney

the narrator closes the lantern tightly so the old man is

not awakened by the bright light

explanation:

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.