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 —"No. We received no visits in this retreat, My husband kept the youth whom you saw the other night at supper, to superintend and manage the concerns of our estates, and the young man was just absent at that time for several weeks."

—"Wonderful!—And does he come every night?"

—"He never misses."

—"And what does hefty to your in those visits?"

—"He never speaks, and only fits down at the foot of my bed."

—"Did you never venture to touch him?"

—"Never."

—"Have you never tried to discover, whether the whole is not a mere cheat?"

—"I have tried every thing, Sennor: My room is lockt and bolted; and there is no secret entrance."

—"Incomprehensible!—But hear me, Madonna, I am a man of spirit and! resolution. Let me but once try my own means to make a discovery!"