He let his arrow fall, and clutched Gerard's shoulder.
"Let me feel flesh and blood," he gasped.

"The haunted tower! the haunted tower!" His terror communicated itself to Margaret and Gerard.

They gasped rather than uttered an inquiry.
"Hush!" he cried, "it will hear you up the wall! it is going up the wall! Its head is on fire.

Up the wall, as mortal creatures walk upon green sward.

If you know a prayer, say it, for hell is loose to-night." "I have power to exorcise spirits," said Gerard, trembling.