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 to the fire, and in a few seconds pulled out his watch, saying: "It is six o'clock, Don Carlos, go now to Elmira. She expects you in the little chapel to the right. Return hither this day six weeks."

Overwhelmed with surprize, I was studying how to reply, when he suddenly vanished. "Powers!" cried I, "how marvellous?—Am I dreaming or in my senses?"

"Follow him," said Jago, and rose likewise.

"One word more"——

"Not a syllable," replied Jago, "your horse is fed. Speed away; and forget not to see us again."

"I will certainly not forget it, Jago."—I embraced him; his eyes were brimful of tears; my horse was at the door; he showed me a small road, and when the sun edged the top of the mountain-brow, I was on the heath.

A thousand reflections thronged into my mind, I could not conceive, why Jago wept, and his lovely partner was so sullen, when the old man arrived. I could not re-