What then has brought you hither ?" "I must see the inmate of that tent." "You know what it contains ?" "I am taught to believe I do; and I bear a letter, which I must deliver with my own hands.

If the animal prove a quadruped, Ishmael is a true man--if a biped, fledged or unfledged, I care not, he is false, and our compactum at an end!" Ellen made a sign for the Doctor to remain where he was, and to be silent.

She then glided into the tent, where she continued many minutes, that proved exceedingly weary and anxious to the expectant without, but the instant she returned, she took him by the arm, and together they entered beneath the folds of the mysterious cloth..