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Theup and down before an

adjoining house, bearing the ominous red cross and piteous inscription:

"Lord have mercy on us!"

"I don't know, sir," was his answer to Orue, they

there was to be a wedding there to-night"

"I never heard of any one screa,"

said Ormiston, doubtfully "Do you knoho lives there?"

"No, sir I only came here, myself, yesterday, but two or three ti out of the

"

Ormiston thanked the man, and went back to report to his friend

"A beautiful young lady!" said Sir Noro directly up and see about it, and you can follow or not, just as you

please"

So saying, Sir Nor hall, flanked by a couple of doors on each side These he opened

in rapid succession, finding nothing but silence and solitude; and

Ormiston--who, upon reflection, chose to follow--ran up a wide and

sweeping staircase at the end of the hall Sir Norman followed him, and