He was shown into the
parlor, and, as there was no one present, the following dialogue took
place, freely and confidentially, between them:--
"You must fly," said the Spectre, or, in other words, the conjurer, whom
we have already described,--"you must fly, for you are to be arrested
this night. Our establishment for the forgery of bad notes must also
be given up, and the Haunted House must be deserted. The magistrates,
somehow, have smelled out the truth, and we must change our lodgings. We
dodged them pretty well, but, after all, these things can't last long.
On to-morrow night I bid farewell to the neighborhood; but you cannot
wait so long, because on this very night you are to be arrested. It
is very well that you sent Grace Davoren, at my suggestion, from the
Haunted House to what is supposed to be the haunted cottage, in the
mountains, where Nannie Morrissy soon joined her. I supplied them with
provisions, and had a bed and other articles brought to them, according
to your own instructions, and I think that, for the present, the safest
place of concealment will be there.
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