r than beating Crakowitz,
the great chess-player."

To this enigma, then, The Terror determined to bend all the faculties
which had excited the admiration and sometimes the amazement of those who
knew her in her school-days. It was a very delicate piece of business;
for though Lurida was an intrepid woman's rights advocate, and believed
she was entitled to do almost everything that men dared to, she knew very
well there were certain limits which a young woman like herself must not
pass.

In the mean time Maurice had received a visit from the young student at
the University,--the same whom he had rescued from his dangerous
predicament in the lake. With him had called one of the teachers,--an
instructor in modern languages, a native of Italy. Maurice and the
instructor exchanged a few words in Italian. The young man spoke it with
the ease which implied long familiarity with its use.

After they left, the instructor asked many curious questions about
him,--who he was, how long he had been in the village, whether anything
was known of his history,--all these inquiries with an eagerness which
implied some special and peculiar reason for the interest they evinced.

"I feel satisfied," the instructor said, "that I have met that young man
in my own country. It was a number of years ago, and of course he has
altered in appearance a good deal; but there is a look about him of--what
shall I call it?---apprehension,--as if he were fearing the approach of
something or somebody. I think it is the way a man would look that was
haunted; you know what I mean,--followed by a spirit or ghost. He does
not suggest the idea of a murderer,--very far from it; but if he did, I
should think he was every minute in fear of seeing the murdered man's
spirit."

The student was curious, in his turn, to know all the instructor could
recall. He had seen him in Rome, he thought, at the Fountain of Trevi,
where so many strangers go before leaving the city. The youth was in the
company of a man who looked like a priest. He could not mistake the
peculiar expression of his countenance, but that was all he now
remembered about his appearance. His attention had been called to this
young man by seeing that some of the bystanders were pointing at him, and
noticing that they were whispering with each other as if with reference
to him. He should say that the youth was at that time fifteen or sixteen
years old, and the time was about ten years ago.

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