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So absorbed had Sir Nors, that he

paid no attention whatever to those around hiotten

their very presence, when one of the to his

feet, and then fell writhing to the floor The others, in disathered abut him, but the ne=t instant fell back with a cry of, "He has

the plague!" At that dreaded announcement, half of them scampered off

incontinently; and the other half with the landlord at their head,

lifted the sufferer whose groans and cries were heart-rendering, and

carried him out of the house Sir Norman, rather dismayed himself, had

risen to his feet, fully aroused from his reverie, and found himself

and another individual sole possessors of the premises His co, or rather crouching,

in a re was clearly visible but

the glare of a pair of fiery eyes There was a great redundancy of hair,

too, about his head and face, indeed considerable more about the latter

than there seelia custo upon hile of bushy

hair, but their owner spoke never a word, though the other stared back

with co upon each other--one