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Sir Norman stood paralyzed She half raised herself on her elbow,

drew the dagger froreat jet of blood shot up and

crimsoned her hands She did not faint--there seey within her that chained life strongly in its place--she only

pressed both hands hard over the wound, and looked mournfully and

reproachfully up in his face Those beautiful, sad, solee and fierce, were truly Leoline's eyes now

Through all his first shock of horror, another thing dawned on his

mind; he had looked on this scene before It was the second view in La

Masque's caldron, and but one remained to be verified

The next instant, he was down on his knees in a paroxysrief and

despair

"What have I done? what have I done?" was his cry

"Listen!" she said, faintly raising one finger "Do you hear that?"

Distant steps were echoing along the passage Yes; he heard the to lead you to death!" she said, with some of her

old fire; "but I will baffle theo to the wall

yonder, and in that corner, near the floor, you will see a s Pull it--it does not require h another vault; at the end there is a broken

flight of stairs, mount them, and you will find yourself in the same

place from which you fell Fly, fly! There is not a second to lose!"

"How can I fly? how can I leave you dying here?"

"I a both hands from the wound to