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She shivered again, the cutting rasp froht

"It air spirits," replied Tess softly "There air one kind of spirits for the sun when it air a-shinin', and the waves just a-ripplin' over the lake They air good spirits But on nights like this there air bad ones--the ghosts of Indians, squaws, and sometimes of the Letts' fa into silence on that one word "dead," the lu with superstitious fear Howsince called to the land of their fathers,with their piteous plaints! How ined that she had seen the headlesslane and lose hi s on the shore!

Suddenly a foreign sound pierced the stor over the wooden box The violence of the storh the brokenthe strange sound was borne again

"A boat's a-beatin' agin the shore," said Tess quietly "Some one air a-comin' in out of the rain"

The words were only formed on her lips when the door opened abruptly Tessibel turned her head; Teola dropped her hand and uttered a cry Frederick Graves, with his fingers upon the door, was closing it against the fury of the storm