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Ferdinand listened attentively for a considerable time, but the

stillness of the place remained undisturbed It was now evident that

the men had quitted the rock, and he ventured forth to the mouth of

the cave He surveyed the wilds around, as far as his eye could

penetrate, and distinguished no huht he heard a sound of distant voices As he

listened in anxious silence, his eye caught the appearance of a

shadohich round near where he stood He started

back within the cave, but in a few ain ventured forth The

shadow re watched it for so till it disappeared behind a point of

rock He had now no doubt that the cave atched, and that it was

one of his late pursuers whose shade he had seen He returned,

therefore, to Julia, and remained near an hour hid in the deepest

recess of the rock; when, no sound having interrupted the profound

silence of the place, he at length once ain he threw a fearful look around, but discerned no human

form The soft moon-beam slept upon the dewy landscape, and the solehtened to the

fugitives the sublimity of the hour Ferdinand now led Julia forth,

and they passed silently along the shelving foot of the rocks

They continued their ithout farther interruption; and a the

cliffs, at some distance from the cave, discovered, to their