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"There is the house," cried Ormiston, and both paused to take breath;

"and I aasp I wonder if your pretty rateful if she knehat I have cohts,"anxiously up at the

darkened front of the house; "even the link before the door is unlit

Surely she cannot be there"

"That reh I'm very doubtful about it myself Ah I

who have we here?"

The door of the house in question opened, as he spoke, and a figure--a

, dark cloak, came slowly

out He stopped before the house and looked at it long and earnestly;

and, by the twinkling light of the la and distinguished looking

"I should not wonder in the least it that were the bridegroom,"

whispered Ormiston, maliciously

Sir Norman turned pale with jealousy, and laid his hand on his sword,

with a quick and natural impulse to make the bride aforthwith

But he checked the desire for an instant as the brigandish-looking

gentleed stare at the preiven them their information an hour or two before,

and as still at his post The friends could not be seen, but they

could hear, and they did so very earnestly indeed

"Can you tell an the cloaked unknohat has