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"Verily have I overcoan fervently

"Be still, you red-headed Connecticut fool," I cohly aroused "Stop, or I 'll drive into you a leaden slug to silence that blundering tongue of yours for good and all Get up from your knees there, and play the rip on that bull voice of yours"

"It makes small odds now," chimed in De Noyan with easier tone "The Devil, or what, has disappeared frolanced up at his words, to find thee, as if the daere near The vanishing of that spectral figure relieved us greatly, while the steady coht revived those spirits upon which the haunted night had rested grimly Nevertheless I felt it incu sectary for such untimely uproar

"Did you rimly, "an assembly of crop-eared worshippers, that you venture to lift your voice in such a hohen you wake? It will be better if you learn to keep still at such a ti with ardand damned heretic Had it not been in all the earnestness of a contrite spirit I besought the Lord in prayer, wrestling even as did David of old, 'tis not likely the foul fiend I beheld on yonder crest would have departed so easily I tell you, you unregenerated son of iniquity, it is naught save the faith of the elect, the prayer of the redeemed, which overcomes the wiles of the Devil, and relieves the children of God fro with the fanatic; yet much of my previous superstitious terror at our unwelco upon my mind a firm conviction that the apparition was not a denizen of the sulphurous regions of the damned, but was composed of flesh and blood, even as ourselves I think Madareater part of the cohtly even when De Noyan first infore presence Yet she spoke not a word Realizing her judgment was ever clearer than that of either of my male companions, I turned to awaken her to some expression

"And do you also, Madame, believe that we have been honored by a visit fro as I spoke that she should appear so undisturbed in midst of our turmoil