"But," said he, gravely, "if I have seen nothing, I've heard something.

Whether it was supernatural, I can't say; but, at least, it was unaccountable and terrible.

I have heard THE GABRIEL HOUNDS." Mr.Coventry and Grace looked at one another, and then inquired, almost in a breath, what the Gabriel hounds were.
"A strange thing in the air that is said, in these parts, to foretell calamity." "Oh dear!" said Grace, "this is thrilling again; pray tell us." "Well, one night I was at Hillsborough on business, and, as I walked by the old parish church, a great pack of beagles, in full cry, passed close over my head." "Oh!" "Yes; they startled me, as I never was startled in my life before.

I had never heard of the Gabriel hounds then, and I was stupefied.

I think I leaned against the wall there full five minutes, before I recovered myself, and went on." "Oh dear! But did any thing come of it ?" "You shall judge for yourself.