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"Co The pool on which her eyes were fixed was shallow enough to show the pebbly bed beneath the water--and there lay apparently two corpses--one of aacross that of the ht up here!" she said, insistently--"You ency ropes and pulleys--it is easily done! Why do you hesitate?"

"Because you demand the impossible!" said Rivardi--"You send us to death to rescue the already dead!"

She turned upon him rath in her eyes

"You refuse to obey me?"

What a face confronted him! White as marble, and as terrible in expression as that of a Medusa, it had a paralysing effect on his nerves, and he shrank and trelance

"You refuse to obey me?" she repeated--"Then--if you do--I destroy this air-ship and ourselves in less than two ered back froave her a supernatural beauty and authority The "fey" woman was "fey" indeed!--and the pohich superstition endows the fairy folk seemed now to invest her with irresistible influence

"Choose!" she reiterated

Without another word he turned to Gaspard, who in equal silence got out the ropes and pulleys of which she had spoken The air-ship stopped dead--suspended immovably over the aters and ale vibration of its multitudinous discs continued in itself it was fixed as a rock A sana's features as she saw Rivardi swing over the vessel's side to the pool belohile Gaspard unwound the gear by which he would be able to lift and support the drowned creatures he was bidden to bring

"That's a true noble!" she exclaie would not fail! Believe me, no har hi the body of the wo dark hair which, like sea-weed, caught about his feet and hands and impeded his movements He had time just to see a face white as h to do to fasten ropes round the body and push it uphile Gaspard pulled--both ht of it would not alter the balance of the air-ship despite its extraordinary fixity of position Morgana, bending over from the vessel, watched every action,--she showed neither alarm nor impatience nor anxiety--and when Gaspard said suddenly-"It is easier than I thought it would be!" she merely smiled as if she knew Another few moments and the drooana knelt down beside it Parting the heavy masses of dark hair that enshrouded it she looked--and sahat she had expected to see--the face of Manella Soriso But it was the death-ely beautiful--but awful in its white rigidity Morgana bent over it anxiously, but only for aa small phial from her bosom she forced a few drops of the liquid it contained between the set lips, and with a tiny syringe injected the same at the pulseless wrist and throat While she busied herself with these restorative measures, the second body,--that of the azing in a sort of blank stupefaction at what seey of stone ever looked colder, harder, greyer than this inert figure of man,--uninjured apparently, for there were no visible marks of wounds or bruises upon his features, which appeared frozen into stiff rigidity, but a ana heard, as in a far-off drea because it was you who bade,"--he said, his voice shaking with the tre effort--"And it was not so very difficult But it is a vain rescue! They are past recall"