Oh! here it is," and he produced an oblong piece of black graphite or some such stone, covered with mystical engravings.
She seized the object, and examined it eagerly.
"Why, it is a talisman," she said, "Gnostic, I should think, for there is the cock upon it, and a lot that I can't read, probably a magic formula.

No doubt the old Crusader got it in the East, perhaps as a gift from some Saracen in whose family it had descended.

Oh! my dear boy, I do thank you.

You could not have made me a present that I should value more." "I am so glad," said Godfrey.
"Yes, but I am ashamed to take it from you.

Well, I'll leave it back to you one day." "Leave it back! Then you must die before me, and why should you do that?
You are quite young." "Because I shall," she answered with a sad little smile.