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'I know that you are incredulous,' interrupted the Baron '

Well, call it what you will, I h you know I a supernatural has appeared, I doubt

not it will appear to s over my house,

or if any extraordinary transaction has formerly been connected with it,

I shall probably be made acquainted with it At all events I will invite

discovery; and, that I ood

truth, my friend, is what I most expect, I shall take care to be well

arht, with an assuaiety, which but ill concealed the anxiety, that depressed his spirits,

and retired to the north apartments, accompanied by his son and followed

by the Baron, M Du Pont and soht at the outer door In these cha appeared

as when he had last been here; even in the bed-roohted his own fire, for none of the domestics could

be prevailed upon to venture thither After carefully exa the

chamber and the oriel, the Count and Henri drew their chairs upon the

hearth, set a bottle of wine and a lamp before the the wood into a blaze, began to converse

on indifferent topics But Henri was often silent and abstracted, and

soled awe and curiosity round the glooradually ceased to converse, and sat either

lost in thought, or reading a voluuile the tediousness of the night