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 fortable on a bed of clean straw than on this damp ground." We all consented to it, and left the gloomy abode of those nocturnal sportsmen: We knocked a good while at the door of the inn before it was opened; at last the landlord appeared, stammering, lost in wonder, "God be praised that you are still alive, how did you escape?"

"The Lieutenant silenced him by some hasty lies, and promised to give him a full account of the whole adventure after he should have rested a little."

"Gentlemen," said he, as soon as he got up in the morning, "next night I will go once more to the haunted castle, and spend the night in the court-yard, will you keep me company."

"The Baron looked at me as if he wished not to accept the proposal: I did so. "We cannot," said I, "stay here a day longer,