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"I shall ask Rochester about hi to-morrow; and unless

he is an optical illusion--which I vow I half believe is the case--I

will come at the truth in spite of your demoniac friend, La Masque!"

"Then you do not ht as well look for a needle in a haystack No! I

have proo

forthwith Will you accompany me?"

"I think not I have a word to say to La, Masque, and you and she kept

talking so busily, I had no chance to put it in"

Sir Norhed

"Besides, I have no doubt it is a word you would not like to utter in

the presence of a third party, even though that third party be

your friend and Pythias, Kingsley Do you ue-sentinel until she returns?"

"Possibly; or if I get tired I may set out in search of her When do you

return?"

"The Fates, that seem to make a foot-ball of my best affections, and

kick the

interpreted, --I shall

surely be back by daybreak"

"And I shall be anxious about that tiht's adventure; so where shall we ood a place an any"

"With alla horse?"

"At the King's Arht, and God speed you!" said Orainst the doorway, and, watching the

dancing lights on the river, prepared to await the return of La Masque

With his head full of the adventures and htfully on until he reached the King's Arms--a low

inn on the bank of the river To his dis the dismal mark and inscription of the pestilence While

he stood conteuard before

another plague-stricken house, advanced and informed him that the whole