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7 in mind, that there was something un- nny if not unearthly in the pack. What surmises will not fear give rise to the mind of a woman! She lighted a (pulded candle, and went again into the rlour, closed the window shutters, and frred them, but before she came out, she t herself upright, held in her breath, and Jok another steady and scrutinizing look noving, as visibly as she ever saw any hing in her life. Every hair on her head tood upright. Every inch of flesh on her ody crept like a nest of pismires. She asted into the kitchen as fast as she could, for her knees bent under the terror that had overwhelmed the heart of poor Alice. She puffed out the candle, lighted it again, and not being able to find a candlestic, though a dozen stood on the shelf in the fore kitchen, she set it in a water-jug, and ran out to the ibarn for old Richard. " Oh, for mercy Richard, make haste, and come into the house. Come away, Richard." "Why, what is the matter Alice? what is wrong?" Oh, Richard ! a pedlar came into the hall entreating for lodging. Well, I would not let him stay on any account, and behold, he is gone off and left his pack.” " And what is the great matter in that ?” said Richard. "I will wager a penny he will
 * the pack. God of mercy! She saw it