"She is dead!" replied Floretta.
"Dead! (repeated Madeline, receding a few paces and wildly staring) dead!" she exclaimed, with mingled doubt and horror.
"Yes, (said Floretta) and her death is attended with such appearances!"
Madeline trembled universally, her respiration grew faint, she sat down by Floretta, she laid her cold hand upon her, but it was many minutes ere she could speak.
"Her death has been attended with suspicious circumstances then?" said she.
"It has," replied Floretta.
Madeline started up, and wildly demanded whether she could not see Madame D'Alembert directly.
Without giving herself time to reflect how very improbable it was that they could have gained access to the castle to perpetrate the crime she accused them of, the moment Ma-
