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"You will enter the ruins, and go on till you discover a spiral

staircase leading to as once the vaults The flags of these vaults

are loose froe, and if you should desire to remove any of them, you

will probably not find it an impossibility"

"Why should I desire to remove them?" asked Sir Norman, who felt

dubious, and disappointed, and inclined to be doght--hear strange noises; and if

you rehts As I told you

before, it is ruh not in

the way they suspect; and so the fools and the co like a rascally valet, ill be the

consequences?"

"Very unpleasant ones to you; but you need not be discovered if you take

care Ah! Look there!"

She pointed to the river, and both her coilded, with a light in prow and stern, ca less pretentious craft, and stopped at the foot of a flight of

stairs leading to the bridge It contained four persons--the oars in the stern, and a lad in the rich livery of a

court-page in the act of springing out Nothing very wonderful in all

this; and Sir Norman and Ormiston looked at her for an explanation