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He succeeded, however, in stifling these emotions, and continued his labor

on the fatal spot where the chair had stood

Finally he arose, took the lamp, examined attentively the whole floor, and

said, with a kind of satisfaction: "At last I have finished! He who could discover a spot there could see

through a stone My arhten

rave is soon filled; in a half hour I

shall be far fro these words, he left the rooain

the staircase leading to the cellar

When he had reached the e, he suddenly

stopped, turned pale froht he heard so, an unusual,listened for soination had

deceived hi up all his resolution, he walked on towards the

cellar, and through the open, door he saw the corpse of Geroni the cellar, full of anxiety and slackening his pace,

suddenly a human voice fell upon his ear There was articulate sound, no

spoken word, but only a hollow groan

Julio, in an agony of terror, dropped the lauished the