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After soed it e by which he entered; he therefore

took the lamp, and led Julia to the door They entered the avenue, and

locking the door after theht of steps dohich the

count had before passed; but having pursued the windings of the avenue

a considerable ti them, he became certain he had

ht, which they

descended and entered upon a passage so very narrow and low, as not to

ade was closed by a door,

which on examination was found to be chiefly of iron Hippolitus was

startled at the sight, but on applying his strength found it gradually

yield, when the iuished

the light They now entered upon a dark abyss; and the door which

round they

beheld a large vault; and it is not easy to i they were in a receptacle for the murdered bodies of the

unfortunate people who had fallen into the hands of the banditti

The count could scarcely support the fainting spirits of Julia; he ran

to the door, which he endeavoured to open, but the lock was so

constructed that it could be moved only on the other side, and all his

efforts were useless He was constrained, therefore, to seek for

another door, but could find none Their situation was the ined; for they were now inclosed in a vault

streith the dead bodies of the murdered, and must there become the

victims of famine, or of the sword The earth was in several places

thrown up, and raves The bodies