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 they since that time had forsaken their former abode.

Although the latter part of his intelligence gave us but little hope that we should succeed in our design to unfold the mystery of the ruinous castle, yet we determined to make at least a trial, the Austrian being very desirous to explore the noted building, and we went all four to the Haunted Castle as soon as it was dark.

We arrived at the glomy fabric after a short walk, lighted some torches we had brought with us from F, entered the court yard, and ascended the spiral staircase; the Austrian searched every corner, and I found all the rooms in their former condition, the seats and the table we had constructed were still as we had left them, unmoved, untouched.

When the Austrian had carefully searched every thing, we descended the stairs leading to the cellar, but found the iron door strongly