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A NSE SERSAS” SSS Senge ea agnetagPamagastmennpe ance THE MYSTERIES. 301 The deep silence of the place strack as solemnly CHAPTER XCL upon the heart as the intense chill of the atmos- phere did upon the exterior scnses; and it was THE CHURCH, ~~ evident that the nobleman felt a species of super- stitious awe steal over him—for his hand trembled Taz party entered the churchyard which was| as he produced the dark lantern from beneath crowded with tomb-stones that gleamed with spec- } his cloak. As for the Magsman and the Beggar- tral-like ghastliness in the cold moonlight; and the | man—they knew not fear of any kind; and the Magsman began to wonder whether the employer of effect of the profound stillness upon their minds himself and the Beggarman intended them to per- | was of the most evanescent description. form a little business in the resurrection way be-| Passing along the aisle, the nobleman led the fore he parted from them. But the nobleman passed straight along the nar- row path which, intersecting the cemetery, led to the church door; and here he stopped. The bag, of which the Big Boggarman had taken charge, furnished a bunch of keys, one of which speedily tarned in the lock. The door was thrust open— and the nobleman entered the church with his eompanions., 41 way to a small cloistral-looking nook, separated from the body of the church by a screen of sculp- tured stone, and evidently set apart for the monu- ments of those families which possessed sepuichres there. Stooping down and throwing the light of the lantern in such a manner upon the pavement that he could read the inscriptions graven there, the nobleman in a few moments pointed out a particular GOLAAL ed (G bole SS COMM