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I had heard of the superstition of e noise, with a hope, thatsupernatural, and desist from pursuit Luckily for myself I

succeeded; the man, it seems, was subject to fits, and the terror he

suffered threw him into one, by which accident I secured er I had escaped, and the increased watchfulness, which

the sentinels, deterredon the terrace; but, in the stillness of night,

I frequently beguiled myself with an old lute, procured for me by a

soldier, which I sometimes accoe, with a hope of s ago, that this hope was answered I then thought I

heard a voice in the wind, calling me; yet, even then I feared to reply,

lest the sentinel at the prison door should hear ht, madam,

in this conjecture--was it you who spoke?'

'Yes,' said Eht indeed'

Du Pont, observing the painful eed the subject 'In one of e,

which I have ular conversation,' said he 'In the passage!' said Ee,' said Du Pont, 'but it proceeded froe wound, and the

shell of the as there so thin, and was also somewhat decayed,

that I could distinctly hear every word, spoken on the other side It