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 burning with impatience to witness the mysterious transaction, and we hastened a quarter before nine o'clock, to the house where our curiosity was to be satisfied.

I knew the owner of the room which Volkert had chosen, as a worthy, honest man: When we entered his house he accosted us with much good nature, requesting leave to be admitted to the experiment, which we the more readily consented to when he cautioned us to be on our guard against the cunning of Volkert, whom he very much suspected to be an artful impostor.

"I, for my part," added he, "have taken all possible care to prevent the Necromancer from imposing upon us, and I would lay any thing that we shall catch him in some foul play or other."

When we told him, that imposition would be impossible, because the gentleman who was to be summoned was still alive, he burst out into