sound of

    voices and feet is heard.)

    SECOND MERC. Ahe passage??hurry,

    For ts

    ith Ave Marys, and burn all our skin

    iter.

    FIRSt MERC. Fare ride

    Many a mile before the morning come;

    Our  tiently.

    (t. A number of PEASANts enter by other door.)

    FIRSt PEASANt. Forgive us, lady, but we heard a noise.

    SECOND PEASANt. e sat by telling vanities.

    FIRSt PEASANt.

    e  the house

    e have found nobody.

    CAtoo timid.

    For noimes.

    t can find you here.

    OONA (entering hurriedly)

    Ocreasure room is broken in,

    tands open, and the gold is gone.

    (PEASANtS raise a lamentable cry.)

    CAt.

    (the cry ceases.)

    have you seen nobody?

    OONA Ochone!

    t my good mistress shis money.

    CAt t too old to ride??

    Get ry round,

    Ill give a farm to hieves.

    (A man  er! the

    porter!quot;)

    PORtER. Demons he door

    In my stone nicwo owls passed me by,

    h human voices.

    OLD PEASANt. God forsakes us.

    CAthLEEN. Old man, old man, he never closed a door

    Unless one opened. I am desolate,

    For a most sad resolve wakes in my

    But I ill my fait

    For surely  forsake the world,

    But stands before it modelling in the clay

    And moulding there his image. Age by age

    th his fingers and pleads hard

    For its old, heavy, dull and shapeless ease;

    But someti