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hurried on

"I should reco the house we found her first; if not there,

then we can try the pest-house"

Sir Norman shuddered

"Heaven forefend she should be there! It is the

ever I heard of!"

"What do you think now of La Masque's prediction--dare you doubt still?"

"Ormiston, I don't knohat to think It is the same face I saw, and

yet--"

"Well--and yet--"

"I can't tell you--I am fairly bewildered If we don't find the lady st

her own house, I have half a ain"

"The wisest thing you could do, my dear fellow If any one knows your

unfortunate beloved's whereabouts, it is La Masque, depend upon it"

"That's settled then; and now, don't talk, for conversation at this

smart pace I don't ad ue, and they strode along at a breathless pace There was

an unusual concourse of looht to kindle the ures went rapidly by, all supposed

it to be a case of life or death In the eyes of one of the party,

perhaps it was; and neither halted till they caht

of the house, whence a short time previously they had carried the

death-cold bride A row of laht around, while the lights of barges and wherries were

sown like stars along the river