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"Beware of hi of him but his name"

"Then do not seek to know," said La Masque, emphatically "For it is a

secret you would tremble to hear And now I must leave you Coo out, lest you should forget

it altogether"

Leoline, with a dazed expression, thrust the precious little casket into

the boso up the lamp, preceded her visitor

down stairs At the door they paused, and La Masque, with her hand on

her arm, repeated, in a low, earnest voice, "Leoline, beware of Count L'Estrange, and becosley as soon

as you can"

"I will bear that nalad little

thrill at her heart, as La Masque flitted out into thethe bolts into their

sockets, and ht!" she said, shtly up stairs to read the long unsolved riddle

So eager was she, that she had crossed the room, laid the lamp on the

table, and sat down before it, ere she becaainst thewith an air of incomparable coolness and ease It

was ae, at that!

Leoline sprang to her feet with a wild scream, a cry full of terror,

amaze, and superstitious dread; and the count raised his band with a