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Securing his home, he looked up at the house istful eyes, and saw

that the solitary light still burned in her chamber It struck hi; for if Count

L'Estrange saw it, it was all up with Leoline--and there was even

more to be dreaded from him than from the earl Hoas he to find

out whether that illu there staring till doomsday would not do it; and there see the house at once or arousing the man

But theso soundly that it seemed a pity to awake

hireat har to see if his bride was safe Probably

Leoline was asleep, and would know nothing about it; or, even were she

wide awake, and watchful, she was altogether too sensible a girl to

be displeased at his anxiety about her If she were still awake, and

waiting for day-dawn, he resolved to re lonesome until that tiain, and keep guard at her door until

Full of these praiseworthy resolutions, he tried the handle of the

door, half expecting to find it locked, and hih the ; but no, it yielded to his touch, and

he went in Hall and staircase were intensely dark, but he knew his

ithout a pilot this tih the hall and up the stairs

The door of the lighted room--Leoline's room--lay wide open, and he

paused on the threshold to reconnoitre He had gone softly for fear of