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told her, that this was a wild conjecture, and she was inclined to

disination

guides the thoughts, she then wavered towards a belief as wild She

reular event, connected with the castle, which had

given it into the possession of its present owner; and, when she

considered the mysterious manner, in which its late possessor had

disappeared, and that she had never since been heard of, her ree of soleh there

appeared no clue to connect that event with the late music, she was

inclined fancifully to think they had some relation to each other At

this conjecture, a sudden chillness ran through her frame; she looked

fearfully upon the duskiness of her chahtened to her fancy its glooth, she left the casement, but her steps faltered, as she

approached the bed, and she stopped and looked round The single la; for a moment, she

shrunk from the darkness beyond; and then, ashamed of the weakness,

which, however, she could not wholly conquer, went forward to the bed,

where her s of sleep She still mused

on the late occurrence, and looked with anxiety to the next night, when,

at the same hour, she determined to watch whether the music returned

'If those sounds were huain'