I begin to admire La Masque more and more, and I think you had better give up the chase, and let me take your place.

I don't believe you have the ghost of a chance, Ormiston." "I don't believe it myself," said Ormiston, with a desperate face "but until the plague carries me off I cannot give her up; and the sooner that happens, the better.

Ha! what is this ?" It was a piercing shriek--no unusual sound; and as he spoke, the door of an adjoining house was flung open, a woman rushed wildly out, fled down an adjoining street, and disappeared.
Sir Norman and his companion looked at each other, and then at the house.
"What's all this about ?" demanded Ormiston.
"That's a question I can't take it upon myself to answer," said Sir Norman; "and the only way to solve the mystery, is to go in and see." "It may be the plague," said Ormiston, hesitating.

"Yet the house is not marked.

There is a watchman.