If he does not confess all and restore what he has taken within a certain time he must lose his son, who will die a violent and horrible death.

Let him know this." The spectre pointed to a line of figures which gleamed upon the side of the tomb as if written with fire, and said, "There is his doom." When her uncle lay down again in his grave Ursula heard the sound of the stone falling back into its place, and immediately after, in the distance, a strange sound of horses and the cries of men.
The next day Ursula was prostrate.

She could not rise, so terribly had the dream overcome her.

She begged her nurse to find the Abbe Chaperon and bring him to her.

The good priest came as soon as he had said mass, but he was not surprised at Ursula's revelation.