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 and, during the day, the ghost was invisible; even now, the rogue did not venture to cross the threshold. He opened the door, gave our traveller the basket with the provisions, told him where to go, and wished him good night. Frank entered the hall, without fear or awe, treating the story of the ghost as an idle gossip, or the tradition of some real event, which fancy had converted to something unnatural. He remembered the report concerning Sir Egbert, whose heavy arm he had so needlessly feared and who had treated him with so much kindness. He made it a general rule, always to believe the very contrary of such reports, and quite forgot, as the knight stated, that all reports had their foundation in truth.

Following the direction of his host, he ascended a winding stone stair-case, and came to a door, the key of which the landlord had given him. Here he entered a long dark passage, where his steps resounded from the walls, he passed thence into a large saloon, and afterwards into a row of smaller rooms, well supplied with every thing necessary both for