The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales

nge. In the dreamy distance arose the gilded mausoleum of Lady Felicia Sedilia, who haunted that portion of Sedilia Manor known as "Stiff-uns Acre." A little to the left of the Gr

objects, a beautiful and almost holy

beautiful head from the finely curved arm and diminutive hand which supported it. When darkness finally shrouded the landscape she started, for the

Seli

do! Yo

dear

dy in an agitated voice and nervous manner,

he spectre of your uncle in the ruined keep, and observed the familiar features of the spirit of your great-gran

liquid orbs fondly upon the i

ite of this dark mystery which surrounds me? In spite of the fatal his

nd her yielding waist. The two lovers gazed at each othe

thing-a fatal misgiving-a dark ambiguity-an equ

ving glance on the lady. "Then we

epeated Selina, with

oofs in the courtyard died away, the Lady Sel

him the history of my youth? Dare I confess that at the age of seven I poisoned my sister, by putting verdigris in her cream-tarts,-that I threw my cousin from a swing at the age of twelve? That the lady's maid who incurred the

she opened a secret panel in the wall, an

confined; another branch of it lies under the parish church, where the record of my first marriage is kept. I have

with a shriek the Lady Selina fell on