such horrors lately that a fellow may be excused for shuddering a little
when a pale-faced apparition tells him at two o'clock in the morning that
he is a vampire, and thirsty, too.'

"Karl told him the whole story; and the mental process of regarding it for
the sake of telling it, revealed to him pretty clearly some of the
treatment of which he had been unconscious at the time. Heinrich was quite
sure that his suspicions were correct. And now the question was, what was
to be done next?

"'At all events,' said Heinrich, 'we must keep you out of the way for some
time. I will represent to my landlady that you are in hiding from enemies,
and her heart will rule her tongue. She can let you have a garret-room, I
know; and I will do as well as I can to bear you company. We shall have
time then to invent some plan of operation.'

"To this proposal Karl agreed with hearty thanks, and soon all was
arranged. The only conclusion they could yet arrive at was, that somehow
or other the old demon-painter must be tamed.

"Meantime, how fared it with Lilith? She too had no doubt that she had
seen the body-ghost of poor Karl, and that the vampire had, according to
rule, paid her the first visit because he loved her best. This was
horrible enough if the vampire were not really the person he represented;
but if in any sense it were Karl himself, at least it gave some
expectation of a more prolonged existence than her father had taught her
to look for; and if love anything like her mother's still lasted, even
along with the habits of a vampire, there was something to hope for in the
future. And then, though he had visited her, he had not, as far as she was
aware, deprived her of a drop of blood. She could not be certain that he