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 way off.’ The Countes found this a very eaonable invitation; he accepted it with joy: Curly-pate was ordered to drive on, and obeyed with fearful officiounes. In order to give the ladies time to recover from their fright, the cavalier joined the potilion, directing him to turn firt to the right and then to the left. Meanwhile he remarked, very jutly, that the horeman every now and then would call to him ome of the bats that were humming about, and give them ecret orders, a remark that added not a little to his apprehenions.

In about an hour a light appeared at a ditance, then two, and latly four; then came up four hunters with lighted torches, who, as they aid, had been anxiouly eeking their mater, and eemed glad to have met with him. The Countes by this time had recovered her equilibrium, and finding herelf out of danger, he thought of honet John, and began to feel concerned for his fate. She communicated her