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cloak that had dropped lightly fro hair streamed in darkness over shoulder and waist The

face was masked, the form stood erect and perfectly motionless, and the

scream of surprise and consternation that arose to Leoline's lips died

out in wordless terror Her noiseless visitor perceived it, and touching

her arhtly with one little white hand, said in her sweetest and

most exquisite of tones: "My child, do not tremble so, and do not look so deathly white You know

with nervous dread

"I ah perhaps you think so Is it

your habit every night to look out of yourin full dress until

?"

"How did you enter?" asked Leoline, her curiosity overcoh the door Not a difficult thing, either, if you leave it wide

open every night, as it is this"

"Was it open?" said Leoline, in dismay "I never knew it"

"Ah! then it was not you ent out last Who was it?"

"It as--" Leoline's cheeks were scarlet; "it was a friend!"

"A somewhat late hour for one's friends to visit," said La Masque,

sarcastically; "and you should learn the precaution of seeing the it after them"