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 mouth, and my hair to rise like bristles, while every sense was lost in anxious bodings; at length the noise grew fainter and fainter, and soon we could hear it no more, and midnight stillness resumed her awful sway."

"A long pause of dumb astonishment ensued, 'till at last the Lieutenant, who had recovered his spirits first exclaimed, "Shall we go down." I shook my head without uttering a word, and the Baron was likewise silent. "Then I will go alone," said the Lieutenant, snatched up a brace of pistols, drew his hanger, and hurried down. He returned a few minutes after, exclaiming, "It is surprising I cannot see the least traces of either men or horses."

"Now he retook his seat, casting down his looks in a pensive manner—his servant was still snoring—the Baron began again to read, and I fell fast asleep. At once I was roused by the report of a pistol, I and honest John started up at the same moment, and