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y father.”“Dearest lady,” said Rose, “I dare not — what can this sound be that is heard by one only?— You are deceived by the rush of the river.”“I would not alarm the castle unnecessarily,” said Eveline, pausing, “or e  ven break your father’s needful slumbers, by a fancy of mine — But hark — I hear it again — distinct amidst the intermitting sounds of the rushing water — a low tremulous sound, mingled with a tinkling like smiths or armourers at work upon their anvils.”

 

Rose had by this time sprung up on the banquette, and flinging back her rich tresses of fair hair, had applied her hand behind her ear to  collect the distant sound. “I hear it,” she cried, “and it increases — Awake them, for Heaven’s sake, and without a moment’s delay!”Eveline accordingly stirred the sleepers with the reversed end of the lance, and as