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The torches shed a partial light; and while she

anxiously looked round for the person of the duke, the whole party

entered the mansion She listened to a confused uproar of voices,

which sounded from the room beneath, and soon after it sunk into a low

itation For so terror, when she heard footsteps

advancing towards the chaht

flashed upon the walls 'Wretched girl! I have at least secured you!'

said a cavalier, who now entered the roo to the itives you have taken?'--'Yes, my lord'--'Then you have

deceived yourselves, and hter' These

words struck the sudden light of truth and joy upon the heart of

Julia, whom terror had before rendered almost lifeless; and who had

not perceived that the person entering was a stranger Madame now

stepped forward, and an explanation ensued, when it appeared that the

stranger was the Marquis Murani, the father of the fair fugitive whom

the duke had before ht of Julia had deceived the

banditti employed by this nobleman, into a belief that she was the

object of their search, and had occasioned her this unnecessary