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 in vain, It was bolted on the out side. The Lieutenant called as loud as he could for his servant, whom he had left snoring in the hall; we joined our voices with his, calling with all our might, John! John!"

"The hollow echo repeated, in a tremendous awful accent, John! John! but no human footstep would gladden our desponding hearts. Frantic with black despair did we now begin to knock at the massy door 'till the blood was running down from our hands, and to cry, John, John, 'till our voices grew hoarse—the hollow echo still repeated in an awful tremendous accent our knocking and crying, but no human footstep was heard. "The fellow sleeps and cannot hear us," said the Lieutenant, at length with a faint voice, "Let us sit down and watch him when he shall come down."

"We did so, but I had no hope that the servant would come, yet I concealed my apprehension within my breast. The Lieutenant