第575章 MR. PERCY AND THE PROPHET.(21)

"Our friend is beginning to amuse me; I am as anxious as you are to know what he is going to see next."Captain Bervie put the next question.

"You have seen us ready to fight a duel--can you tell us the result?""I can tell you nothing more than I have told you already. The figures of the duelists have faded away, like the other figures Isaw before them. What I see now looks like the winding gravel-path of a garden. A man and a woman are walking toward me.

The man stops, and places a ring on the woman's finger, and kisses her."Captain Bervie opened his lips to continue his inquiries--turned pale--and checked himself. Mr. Linwood put the next question.

"Who is the happy man?" he asked.

"_You_ are the happy man," was the instantaneous reply.

"Who is the woman?" cried Captain Bervie, before Mr. Linwood could speak again.

"The same woman whom I saw before; dressed in the same color, in pale blue."Captain Bervie positively insisted on receiving clearer information than this. "Surely you can see _something_ of her personal appearance?" he said.