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enough to a third party; but neither of our trio could saw anything

whatever to laugh at Ormiston was the first to speak

"What in Heaven's naly exclai very pale, "and

carried her off while ere gone"

"Let us search the house," said the doctor; "you should have locked your

door, Sir Nor on the hint, Sir Nor on the table, and

started on the search His two friends followed hihest, the lowest, the loveliest spot,

They searched for the lady, and found her not"

No, though there was not the slightest trace of robbers or intruders,

neither was there the slightest trace of the beautiful plague-patient

Everything in the house was precisely as it alas, but the silver

shining vision was gone