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It was about five o'clock in the afternoon Julio was seated in one of the

roo, his arht, he had his eyes fixed on an arm-chair which stood near

the onlyin the room, and from time to time he shook his head with

an expression of anxious doubt

The footsteps of a man in the room above interrupted his reflections; an

ironical smile passed over his features as he muttered: "He calls me a coward, the dastard that he is! For one hour he has been

running about froh pursued by invisible spectres

How cunningly he has devised the whole affair in his own interest Julio

is to kill poor Geronimo! Julio is to bury the body in the cellar! Julio

is to do all by hiuard His intention is clear enough to me; he wishes to securee as much as he pleases; he shall deal the mortal blow him self, or

Geronimo shall leave this place unharmed"

Julio remained silent for a fewat the chair: "Think that in one hour that infernal seat will hold a corpse! The corpse

of the ood angel

prevent hinor Turchi will kill

him; but I edy?

The scaffold for the allows for the servant This is the