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23 specifying who were to carry, and who were to follow him to the grave,—He had insisted on receiving the sacrament—a wish, however, which those about him evaded complying with.—Night came on, and he began to count the hours he had yet to lire, till the fatal nine the next morning! and every time the clock struck, his anxiety encreased. At the moment the fatal hour at length arrived, and as soon as he heard the first sound of the clock, his eyes fixed, and before it ceased to strike, he was a corpse.

A Spectre loaded with Chains appears to a Young Gentleman.

About the year 1570, a young man named Vasques d'Ayola, having gone to Boulogne with two of his companions to study the law, and not having found a lodging in the city to his wishes, they took an apartment in a spacious and magnificent house, but deserted on account of a spectre which frightened every body that came to reside there. They laughed at this discourse, and took up their abode.

At the end of the first month d'Ayola watching alone in his chamber while his companions were sleeping quietly in their beds, he heard a noise at a distance similar to chains dragging along the ground it appeared advancing toward him up the