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The Making of the Battering-Ram—The Count Has a Narrow Escape—The Secret Mines—The Question of Sorcery—Amabel's Project—A Brave Young Girl—The Friar as a Spy—His Masquerade in Minstrel Garb—The "Ballad of King Estmere"—Luke Decides to Undermine a Tower—The Ram Ready for Its Work.