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But, to return to the men, whom I saw obscurely beyond the

door, and who did not suffer n They all rushed into the rooh

not before I had snatched up ainst four? They soon disared

my sword upon the table, to assist, as they said, those who should cohosts They then

led es, cut, as I fancied, in the walls,

for I had never seen thehts of steps,

till we ca

a stone door, which I should have taken for the wall itself, ent

through a long passage, and down other steps cut in the solid rock, when

another door delivered us into a cave After turning and twining about,

for some time, we reached the mouth of it, and I found myself on the

sea-beach at the foot of the cliffs, with the chateau above A boat was

in waiting, into which the ruffians got, forcingwith them,

and we soon reached a small vessel, that was at anchor, where otherme aboard, two of the felloho had seized me,