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and unlocked it with a treht with silver thread, in dainty wreathe of water lilies; and in

the bottom, neatly folded, lay a sheet of foolscap She opened it with

nervous haste; it was a coh, staed to Croht, fair hand, and bore the title "Leoline's History"

Leoline's hand treerness, she could scarcely hold the

paper; but her eye rapidly ran from line to line, and she stopped not

till she reached the end While she read, her face alternately flushed

and paled, her eyes dilated, her lips parted; and before she finished

it, there came over all a look of the ers as she finished; and she sank back in

her chair with such a ghastly paleness, that it seemed absolutely like

the lividness of death

A sudden and startling noise awoke her froet in at the ! The chill of terror it sent through

every vein acted as a sort of counter-irritant to the other feeling,

and she sprang from her chair and turned her face fearfully toward the

sounds But in all her terror she did not forget theup at her, on the floor; and she snatched

it up, and thrust it and the casket out of sight Still the sounds went

on, but softly and cautiously; and at intervals, as if the worker were

afraid of being heard Leoline went back, step by step, to the other

extremity of the room, with her eyes still fixed on the , and on

her face a white terror, that left her perfectly colorless