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 twenty years, to a newly erected manion, ome thirty miles ditant, on a report which was rien among his dometics, that the image of the late lord was frequently een in an apartment on the wet ide of the catle. This opinion of the catle being haunted was readily adopted by the urrounding peaantry; and no one, after the cloe of day, dared venture within ight of it.

At this period, a war between England and Scotland raged with incredible fury; and the youth of each nation were invited to join the tandard of their repective overeigns. The baron Raymond exerted his interet among his tenantry and vaals, in favour of king David; but uch were the devatations of the Scottih monarch, and his marauding army, that many of his ubjects joined the forces of the victorious Edward.

Among the numerous clans and individuals that fled from Scotland, was a youth of majetic mien and manly form, the on of a vaal of the houe of Raymond; who having from his infancy dicovered a propenity for war, had engaged the notice of the baron, and with his on, two years younger, had been intructed in the ue of arms. Glanville (for uch was the name of the young peaant) upecting that his lordhip would command his attendance upon lord Edward, then on the point of etting out to join the forces of his overeign, privately tole away from the village, intent to follow the banners of the Britih monarch.

Having continued his walk the whole day, he reached the kirts of a gloomy foret, that flickered from the rude blats of the north the catle of Raymond. He tood a few minutes, and gazed on the cene around, in hopes of dicovering ome cot, or hepherd’s hovel, where he might pas the night. No one appearing, he truck into the foret, and, after half an hour’s walk, arrived at the oppoite ide; the un had now unk beneath the horizon; and its lat reflections, which pointed upon the lofty battlements, dicovered to him the abandoned catle. He was an utter tranger to this part of the country, and, conequently, knew not that the