ling from Mejnour's prophecy of the scene in which I was
to seek deliverance, it occurred to me, at last, that in the sober air
of my native country, and amidst its orderly and vigorous pursuits, I
might work out my own emancipation from the spectre. I left all whom
I had before courted and clung to,--I came hither. Amidst mercenary
schemes and selfish speculations, I found the same relief as in debauch
and excess. The Phantom was invisible; but these pursuits soon became
to me distasteful as the rest. Ever and ever I felt that I was born for
something nobler than the greed of gain,--that life may be made equally
worthless, and the soul equally degraded by the icy lust of avarice, as
by the noisier passions. A higher ambition never ceased to torment
me. But, but," continued Glyndon, with a whitening lip and a visible
shudder, "at every attempt to rise into loftier existence, came that
hideous form. It gloomed beside me at the easel. Before the volumes of
poet and sage it stood with its burning eyes in the stillness of night,
and I thought I heard its horrible whispers uttering temptations never
to be divulged." He paused, and the drops stood upon his brow.

"But I," said Adela, mastering her fears and throwing her arms around
him,--"but I henceforth will have no life but in thine. And in this love
so pure, so holy, thy terror shall fade away."

"No, no!" exclaimed Glyndon, starting from her. "The worst revelation is
to come. Since thou hast been here, since I have sternly and resolutely
refrained from every haunt, every scene in which this preternatural
enemy troubled me not, I--I--have--Oh, Heaven! Mercy--mercy! There it
stands,--there, by thy side,--there, there!" And he fell to the ground
insensible.

CHAPTER 5.V.

Doch wunderbar ergriff mich's diese Nacht;
Die Glieder schienen schon in Todes Macht.
Uhland.

(This night it fearfully seized on me; my limbs appeared already
in the power of death.)

A fever, attended with delirium, for several days deprived Glyndon of
consciousness; and when, by Adela's care more than the skill of the
physicians, he was restored to life and reason, he was unutterably
shocked by the change in his sister's appearance; at first, he fondly
imagined that her health, affected by her vigils, would recover with his
own. But he soon saw, with an anguish which partook of remorse, that the
malady was deep-seated,--deep, deep, beyond the reach of Aesculapius and