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Only at intervals a dull sound like the grating noise of a file seemed to

issue from the old edifice; but it was so indistinct and so often

interrupted that it was not sufficient to destroy the solitude and silence

of the place

Suddenly two heavy strokes, as if froarden Some one had knocked at the exterior door for admittance

A few moments afterwards a man appeared on the staircase of the pavilion,

and descended into the garden

He was tall and slender; his hair and beard were red, and a red h sunken and emaciated, were very

red His eyes ild in their expression His arth; his h his

lith

His dress denoted him to be a menial: he wore a vest of black leather, a

red doublet and breeches of the same color, without embroidery or

ornament

At this moment his sleeves were rolled up, and his thin arms were bare to