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A faint ray still glireat, and,

perhaps, so just was her horror of that chaain have te

the light so i with

difficulty, and resting at the end of the passage, when she heard a

rustling sound, and then a low voice, so very near her, that it seemed

close to her ear; but she had presence of mind to check her emotions,

and to remain quite still; in the next moment, she perceived it to be

the voice of Verezzi, who did not appear to know, that she was there,

but to have spoken to himself 'The air is fresher here,' said he: 'this

should be the corridor'

Perhaps, he was one of those heroes, whose

courage can defy an enemy better than darkness, and he tried to rally

his spirits with the sound of his own voice However this ht, and proceeded, with the sa steps,

towards E, that, in darkness,

she could easily elude his search, even in her chamber; and, like an

intoxicated person, he followed pertinaciously the one idea, that had

possessed his iination

The moment she heard his steps steal away, she left her station and

moved softly to the other end of the corridor, deterain to chance, and to quit it by the first avenue she could find; but,