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"Oh, the bodkin through uard sat with hanging lip and lacklustre eyes, turned to stone; one, at full length upon the ground, bruised his face against the pine needles and called on the Virgin; the fourth, panic-stricken, leaped to his feet and dashed off into the darkness, to trouble us no more that day

"Oh, the heavy chains!" cried the unseen spectre "Oh, the deadhis nails into the earth and howled; his felloere too frightened for sound or ue, with little fear of God orat the rope about his wrists He was ever quick to take suggestion, and he had probably begun to question the nature of the ghost as doing hih?" said Sparrow in eth"

I nodded, too choked with laughter for speech, and drew my sword The next moment ere upon the men like wolves upon the fold

They ht have dispatched the in their ears; but we contented ourselves with disarone for their lives in the direction of the Paoal in life escape from the wood

"Did you meet the Italian?"

I turned to find ly spirit; she was not one that the dead or the living could daunt To her, as to then soul She had been in peril of that which she ht in her eye was not quenched, and the hand hich she touched h cold, was steady

"Is he dead?" she asked "At court they called him the Black Death They said"-"I did not kill him," I answered, "but I will if you desire it"

"And his master?" she demanded "What have you done with his master?"

I told her At the vision ave way, and she broke into laughter as cruel as it eet Peal after peal rang through the haunted wood, and increased the eeriness of the place

"The knot that I tied he will untie directly," I said "If ould reach Ja"