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 tones announced the lape of the hours. Fitzalan everal times imagined that he heard a low but heavy groan, which eemed to him like that of a peron expiring: and twice or thrice he thought the bolts of the door he had dicovered jut grated, as though ome one were triving oftly to draw them back. He litened each time with the mot profound attention; but not hearing any thing more, concluded that it was the effect of his over-heated and bewildered imagination. After everal hours of indecribable uffering had elaped, the agonized and exhauted Fitzalan unk into lumber. But to him, lumber was no repite from anguih. Innumerable dim and indefinable but horrid forms, appeared to float before him, and view him with cowling and portentous apects.

Now he thought that he heard a more than mortal voice call upon him to execute vengeance on a murderer. He tarted the cene changed the murderer, fallen beneath his word, lay lifeles at his feet it vanihed, and he beheld his Edith kneeling for mercy, his little Edwin clinging round her neck, creaming in terror, while a ruffian, whoe dagger was tained with the half-congealed blood of recent murder, was in the act of tabbing her. He prang forward to ave her, and awoke, every limb convuled, and the cold drops of horror trickling down his frame. “Merciful God!” he exclaimed, “my unprotected Edith!”

Thus paed the hours, till at lat the dawning day appeared through a narrow oblique perforation in the wall, which jut erved to keep the air of the dungeon from total tagnation. Fitzalan could now examine his prion more minutely than before. This he did, but with no better effect. The door remained impervious to all his efforts; and the window, if o it might be called, gave till les propect of ecape; for independantindependent [sic] of its form, length, and narrownes, it was firmly ecured, both inide and out, by thick iron bars, which almot excluded the little light and air which was intended to be admitted. Once more then, Fitzalan in depair gave up his earch, and endeavoured to dicover