There the castle stood, sad and lifeless, and its lighted windows looked down no more upon us from the height.

All its eyes were closed and were to remain so." "Oh, oh, did they never come back ?" cried out Kurt with regret.
"No, never," the mother replied.

"At that time, too, apparently, all the reports which had long ago faded were revived as to a ghost who was supposed to wander about the castle.

There were many who asserted they had seen or heard him, and till to-day the ghost of Wildenstein is haunting people's heads." "Look at him," said Bruno dryly, pointing to the lower end of the table where Kurt was sitting.
"Finish, please, mother," the latter quickly urged.

"Where did they all get to?
And where is the brother who disappeared ?" "All I still have to tell you is short and sad," said the mother.
"Leonore faithfully wrote to me.