All they alleged was believed by those who heard.

The judges pronounced you guilty, and then sentenced you to a gloomy prison.

They were bearing you off, when, in my agony, I awoke.

It was terrible, terrible! yet, thank God! only a dream, a fearful dream!" Claire drew his arms around his young wife, and clasped her with a straining embrace to his bosom.

He made no answer for some time.