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member of her family was about to be freed by Death,
the deliverer.

Some days later, Ferdinand came home from a
surveying trip in the northern forests, suffering
from a fatal disease of the lungs. As soon as the
mother saw him, she knew that he was doomed.

So he must go, that good son who had never
caused his parents a moment’s sorrow! He must
leave the joys of earth, leave his beautiful betrothed,
whom he adored, and the great estates which should
have become his.

At last, when my shadowy friend had tarried a
month, he took courage, and went one night to the
house. He knew that hunger and want had been
met there with smiling faces, so why should not he
too be welcomed with joy?

That night the Captain’s wife, who lay awake,
heard rappings on the window-ledge and, sitting up
in bed, she asked: “Who knocks?”

And it is said a voice answered, “It is Death.”

Then she opened her window; she saw owls and
bats fluttering in the moonlight, but Death she did
not see.

“Come, friend and deliverer!” she said, in a
half-whisper. “Why hast thou tarried so long? I have
waited, I have called. Come and release my son!”

Then Death slipped into the house, pleased as
a poor deposed monarch who in the decrepitude of

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