started, opened her eyes, demanding, "What is the matter? Who is
here?"

"It is I, Lorenza," he said, sadly; "I was obliged to awaken you, to
tell you something important."

"Are the pursuers here? Have they discovered us? Are they coming to take
us to prison?"

"No, no; be quiet, Lorenza, no one has discovered us!"

"Quiet!" she repeated, with a scornful laugh. "We have travelled day and
night the last ten days, hiding ourselves in miserable holes and dens,
under assumed names, believing our pursuers were at our hacks; and now
that we are showing ourselves publicly, you ask me to be quiet! I have
slept for the first time since that fearful night in Mittau, and it is
very cruel and thoughtless of you to wake me, if the bailiffs are not
here, and danger does not menace us."

"For the moment we are safe, but I have something important to tell
you."

"Important?" she cried, shrugging her shoulders. "What is of consequence
to me, since that night? Oh, when I think of it, I could shriek with
rage, I could annihilate myself in despair!"

"It was indeed a dreadful experience, and my heart quakes when I think
of it," said Cagliostro, gloomily. "The secret assembly consisted of
the highest and most influential of the Courland nobility. Suspecting
no wrong, not even that there could be traitors among the believers who
would falsify my spirit apparatus, I gave myself up to conjuring the
departed."

"And I upon my fairy throne," added Lorenza, "couched in the innocent
costume of the celestial, only veiled with a silvery cloud, heard a
sudden shriek. The room was quite dark; I saw, upon opening my eyes,
that no spirits enlivened it."

"Every thing failed--that is to say, my assistants let it fail," said
the count, "and the assembly began to murmur. Suddenly, instead of the
departed princes and heroes, what fearful forms arose!"

"Apes, cats, and other animals," cried Lorenza, with a loud laugh. "Oh,
what an irresistible sight! In spite of my anger I had to laugh, and
laugh I did upon the fairy throne, like--"

"Like a foolish child who neither knows nor understands danger,"
interrupted the count. "Your laughing soon ceased in the fearful tumult
and uproar. They shrieked for light, the ladies fled, and the men
menaced me with loud curses, calling me a charlatan, and threatening my
life!"

"Mine also," cried Lorenza; "oh, what insults and ill-treatment I was
forced to listen to! They rushed upon me, shrieking for the b