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And in he came with eyes of flame, The fiend to fetch the dead. SOUTHEY'S _Old Woman of Berkeley_.
Melmoth and Moncada did not dare to approach the door till about noon. They then knocked gently at the door, and finding the summons unanswered, they entered slowly and irresolutely. The apartment was in the same state in which they had left it the preceding night, or rather morning; it was dusky and silent, the shutters had not been opened, and the Wanderer still seemed sleeping in his chair.