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All was silent in the cha reached the saloon, he called loudly upon Ludovico; after which,

still receiving no answer, he threw open the door of the bed-room, and

entered The profound stillness within confirmed his apprehensions for Ludovico,

for not even the breathings of a person in sleep were heard; and his

uncertainty was not soon ter all

closed, the chauished in

it The Count bade a servant open them, who, as he crossed the room to

do so, stu, and fell to the floor, when his cry

occasioned such panic a the few of his felloho had ventured

thus far, that they instantly fled, and the Count and Henri were left to

finish the adventure

Henri then sprung across the roo a -shutter, they

perceived, that the man had fallen over a chair near the hearth, in

which Ludovico had been sitting;--for he sat there no longer, nor could

any where be seen by the iht, that was admitted into the

apartment The Count, seriously alarht be enabled to exa,