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He knelt behind the chair, passed his ars opened and loosed their hold upon the inanih the hall until he reached

a staircase conducting to a cellar There he left the corpse, entered an

adjoining rooht in his hand,

he descended until he reached a subterranean passage Very deep under the

ground, and at the end of this passage, was a kind of vaulted cellar

closed by a heavy door Julio opened the door, and by the light of the

la in one corner of the cellar, and

on the sides of which lay the earth which had been excavated[20] After a rapid survey, he placed the lae, and returned for the dead body

When he had carried his burden as far as the subterranean passage, he

panted for breath and seeth in order to finish as soon as possible his painful task, and

dragged the corpse into the cellar There he let it fall upon the side of

the grave already prepared for its reception After resting a few rave and cover it with earth, but he

desisted, saying: "Bah! the poor young nor Turchi has not

yet left At any rate, I will first wash away the blood stains, and then I

will return to bury the body"

He took the la the door