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"Hush, sir!" said the Is loomed up before them, shadowy and indistinct in the dawn

"Hush, sir!" he repeated, and Barnabas saw that he was creeping

forward on tip-toe, and, though scarce knohy, he hi doors fast, bolted from within, and, in

this still dead hour, save for their own soft breathing, not a sound

reached thehed suddenly, and clapped Master

Milo upon his sht!" said he, and then paused, and

held his breath

"Did ye hear anythink?" whispered the boy

"A chain--rattled, I think"

"And 't was in The Terror's' stall,--there? didn't ye hear somethink

else, sir?"

"No!"

"I did,--it sounded like--" the boy's voice tailed off suddenly and,

upon the silence, a lohistle sounded; then a thud, as of soht, quickly followed by another,--and thus two

figures darted away, ihosts in the dawn, but the alley

was filled with the rush and patter of their flight Instantly

Barnabas turned in pursuit, then stopped and stood utterly still,

his head turned, his eyes wide, glaring back towards the gloom of

the stables For, in thatof

chains froitives

without, was an appalling sound rising high and ever higher--shrill,