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There's some ill planet reigns; I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favorable. -- WINTER'S TALE.
THE time is midnight, the day the same as that which saw this irruption of Hickory into Professor Darling's observatory; the scene that of Miss Dare's own room in the northeast tower. She is standing before a table with a letter in her hand and a look upon her face that, if seen, would have added much to the puzzlement of the detectives.