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 with a hoarse voice, and on a sudden I heard the trampling of horses and the sound of horns: The noise came nearer, and methought I heard a number of horsemen rushing by, and sounding their horns as if a large hunting party were passing through the village; the troop darted like lightning through the street close by the windows of the inn: the Baron started up, asking me with a fearful voice, "What is this?" "I don't know," replied I abruptly. I listened attentively, and the troop could not have been far from our inn, when, on a sudden, all was again as silent as the grave; the Baron began to snore as before, and I to muse on that strange incident."

"I could not think it possible that any body would go a hunting, in so large a company; at that unseasonable hour, and was much inclined to think all had been a deluding dream, when I suddenly recollected the mysterious words of our landlord, I cannot but confess that I was seized with horror. I was just fall-