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'That groan was surely human!' said she 'I WILL speak' 'Who is it,'

cried Emily in a faint voice, 'that wanders at this late hour?'

The figure raised its head but suddenly started away, and glided down

the terrace She watched it, for a long while, passing swiftly in

the ht, but heard no footstep, till a sentinel fro Theup, called her by na

precipitately, but, a second su her to reply, the

soldier then respectfully asked if she had seen any thing pass On

her answering, that she had; he said nohim with her eyes, till he was lost in the

distance But, as he was on guard, she knew he could not go beyond the

rampart, and, therefore, resolved to await his return

Soon after, his voice was heard, at a distance, calling loudly; and

then a voice still more distant answered, and, in the nextthe terrace As the soldiers

moved hastily under the casement, she called to enquire what had

happened, but they passed without regarding her

Eure she had seen, 'It cannot be a

person, who has designs upon the castle,' said she; 'such an one would

conduct himself very differently He would not venture where sentinels

were on watch, nor fix himself opposite to a here he perceived

he must be observed; much less would he beckon, or utter a sound of