moment,' said she. 'I am lost for ever if
you do.'

Gerard Douw's chamber was approached
through a spacious apartment, which they
were now about to enter. Gerard Douw
and Schalken each carried a was candle,
so that a sufficient degree of light was cast
upon all surrounding objects. They were
now entering the large chamber, which, as
I have said, communicated with Douw's
apartment, when Rose suddenly stopped,
and, in a whisper which seemed to thrill
with horror, she said:

'O God! he is here--he is here! See,
see--there he goes!'

She pointed towards the door of the
inner room, and Schalken thought he saw
a shadowy and ill-defined form gliding into
that apartment. He drew his sword, and
raising the candle so as to throw its light
with increased distinctness upon the objects
in the room, he entered the chamber into
which the shadow had glided. No figure
was there--nothing but the furniture which
belonged to the room, and yet he could
not be deceived as to the fact that
something had moved before them into the