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CHAPTER xxIn.-( continued).

and was In as deep sleep as he wa.
when Sosia partially aroused him.
The sorcerer was on his hands ant
knees, blowing at burning pastille
and forcing Its fumes and most of it.
smoke under the door with his breath
This pastille was Of more potent
composition than those which both he
and Clarence had used before, and the
young man had no antidcte as the sor
cerer had, to protect himself from Its
effects.
Clarence recognized instantly by
tho odor that this pastille was un
known to him, and retreated to the
stone door, hoping that there he might
escape what he feared.
The sorcerer, perfectly confident in
the power of his invention, continued
10 keap up stream of the pastille
gases into the dungeon with his breath
until all the interior dungeon began tc
crow rank with the smell.
The odor began to float toward Clar
ence. seeking an outlet at the space
above the stone door. toward which g
suction Of air from the sea drew its
fleecy masses.
Clarence was at last compelled to
inhale the gas, and soon sank into ut.
ter iLsensibility under its influence;
but not until he had hidden, in a
crevice, between two stones, that pack
ct which contained the letters of Capt.
Osred. and the confession of the sor-
cerer.
II perish, those writings may
some day come to light was the last
thought of the young man as he sank
into insensibility
Sosia. who had continued to blow
until he consumed two flo his pas
TILES ceased to do SO when the sec
ond was consumed. and listened.
Hearing only the loud and labored
breathing Of Clarence in the dungeon,
he peered in at the door.
All. all Is safe!' he muttered.
And in few moments he unbarred,
unlocked and opened the door. AS he
opened the door current of air
sweeping down from above Though
the trap door, which he had left open,
soon dissipated the fumes of the pas
titles.
e Grasping Lord Genlis by the shout
dcrs. Sosia dragged him into the dun
geon and left him near its center.
The sorcerer then hurried to Clarence
and deprived him of all his weapons
and searched his person for papers,
hoping to discover something from
which might be learned in whose pos
session we're those papers of which
Clarence had spoken so confidently
70 Helen,
Such papers as the sc rcerer found
he placed In his boscom for future ex-
animation, and then hurried from the
dungeon. taking care. however, to
carefully secure tho door.
The further intended vengeance of
the sOrcerer well deserved the name
Of Internal; for hurrying back to Hell
ems first prison, he lifted the body of
Capt, Osred upon his shoulders and
bore It to the dungeon door.
He placed his burden rpon the floor
or the dungeon corridor. and took a
survey OF the interior through the hole
81 the iron door.
All within was az he had left it.
Tho pallid face upon the corridor
do0r was scarcely more death-like
than the faces Of the two men in the
dungeon.
Good said sosia.
And openin gthe door he dragged
the body into the dungeon. left II 1,an..
Lord Genlis. ind then hurried from
the room
Sosia had scarcely closed and lock-
ed the door when Clarence sprang to
his feet. the influence of the pastille
gas having just passed from his lungs
and brain. M
His lamp, still burning brightly
where he had left it, enabled him to:
comprehend all that had passed. s
!" Here's my eye, my son, ! sneered
the sorcerer, with his eyesat the hole
in the iron door, Shoot at it--do!7
Coward! you have lobbed me of
every weapon, save one +" replied Char
ence. sternly
Except one. And what is that
one z.
nv trust III tie Justice 81 heaven, B
Teplied Clarence, solemnly z
sBosh., laughed Sosla Wien Lord
sGenlis awakes you will have a mad
man % converse with on that sub
jecA. You viii see that 4 have even
SLOWED yo2 To have another compan-
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