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"To-o "Who knohat to-oodnight!"

He rode away in thepeacefully down

upon hi

given to Leoline, and the other to the Midnight Queen and her mysterious

court The farther he went away from Leoline, the dihts; and the nearer he caerly she loomed up, until he spurred his horse to

a allop, lest he should find the castle and the queen lost

in the regions of space when he got there Once the plague-stricken city

lay behind hiht,

he turned into the silent deserted by-path leading to the ruin

Tying his horse to a stake in the cru wall, he paused for a ht moon He had looked

at it many a time before, but never with the same interest as now;

and the ruined battle sides, had all a new and weird interest for hi that his horse was secure in the shadow

of the wall, he entered, and walked lightly and rapidly along in

the direction of the spiral staircase With more haste, but the sah the vaults to where he knew

the loose flag-stone was It ell he did know; for there was neither