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Meanwhile the procurator had exclaioat, and which has resisted all exorcisms, persists in its deeds of witchcraft, if it alarms the court with theainst it the gallows or the stake Gringoire broke out into a cold perspiration Charypsy's taoat, in a certain oat looked at it with an intelligent eye, raised its gilded hoof, and struck seven blows

It was, in fact, seven o'clock A oire could not endure it

"He is destroying himself!" he cried aloud; "You see well that he does not knohat he is doing"

"Silence a the louts at the end of the hail!" said the bailiff sharply

Jacques Charmolue, by the aid of the saoat perform many other tricks connected with the date of the day, the month of the year, etc, which the reader has already witnessed And, by virtue of an optical illusion peculiar to judicial proceedings, these same spectators who had, probably, more than once applauded in the public square Djali's innocent ic were terrified by it beneath the roof of the Palais de Justice The goat was undoubtedly the devil

It was far worse when the procurator of the king, having e filled with movable letters, which Djali wore round his neck, they beheld the goat extract with his hoof from the scattered alphabet the fatal name of Phoebus The witchcraft of which the captain had been the victim appeared irresistibly de dancer, who had so often dazzled the passers-by with her grace, was no longer anything but a frightful van of life; neither Djali's graceful evolutions, nor the menaces of the court, nor the suppressed ier reached her ed to shake her unmercifully, and the president had to raise his voice,--"Girl, you are of the Bohemian race, addicted to deeds of witchcraft You, in cooat iht of the twenty-ninth of March last, murdered and stabbed, in concert with the powers of darkness, by the aid of char's arches of the watch, Phoebus de Châteaupers Do you persist in denying it?"