rank’s weakness increased; the effusion of blood produced symptoms of the near approach of death. He desired his cowriters’guardians might be called, and when the midnight hour had struck, he related composedly what the reader has perused—he died immediately after.

The guardians hastened to protect Dirk; but when they arrived, it was already too late. Lord Marquardt had disappeared, and Scott had glutted the thirst of a VAMPYRE!

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