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"This is what I have worked at, without stopping, for four days I wish

the bewitched chair to the devil! I have already exhausted ood, and in a few minutes I will have finished"

Bernardo exahtened

"Heavens!" he exclaimed, "a chair for a trap! Do you entrap men here?"

Julio nodded his head affirmatively

Pale from anxiety, Bernardo muttered: "May God preserve me! What cri of this terrible piece of

furniture?"

"Was it not fros?"

The hun of the cross, and hed i him on the shoulder

exclaimed: "Foolish boy! he already sees a victi as freely as in some old woman's story Be at ease,

Bernardo; this is done only to satisfy a caprice of our arden and repair the fountain He will place this aruest who seats hiht, and the sala as they

please It is a mania of ourat his own fears "Open the

door now, Julio; I should have been at the factory long ago"

They both left the house talking together, and they turned their steps

towards the exterior door