Persuading himself she might have fallen to the ground, or that he had overlooked the precise spot where he had left her, he renewed his search, but with no better success than before; and he was almost beginning to believe that some magic might have been practised to cause her disappearance, when it occurred to him that she had been carried off by Kelley.
"Fool that I was, not to think of that before!" he exclaimed.

"I have unintentionally aided their project by extinguishing the lights.

But now that I am satisfied she is gone, I can devote my whole energies to the preservation of Garnet.

They shall not capture us so easily as they anticipate." With this, he approached the priest, and grasping his hand drew him noislessly along.

They had scarcely passed through the arched doorway in the screen, and set foot within the nave, when the clamour without ceased.