Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

86 DANGER IN THE DARK.
cloud: again, in a melodious voice, she began to
sing:
.. Happy and free
As the honey bee,
I'll cull the sweet flowers,
And deck rosy bowers.
I've golden wings to Hy,
High as the starry sky I
Then soon I '11go
From realms of woe.
.. To the deep sea,
Come, fol~w me;
Its shining pearls are mine-s-
They all, all shall be thine.
0, there forever lave,
The moaning, moaning wave--
It sighs for me,-
Come, come and see."
Now pausing again, she looked earnestly, for a few
moments, into the faces of Maria and Arabella, and
then addressed them thus:
"Beautiful damsels, have ye neither homes nor
friends, that you have come hither to breathe foul contagion-and
to dwell where maniacs rave and fiends
prowl for prey 1"
"I see no fiends, Isadora;" remarked Anna Maria,
thinking, perhaps, to dissipate her imaginary fears.
" Ah I you would not know them to be such, at
first sight;" replied the lunatic, looking archly, "they
wear clerical robes."
" You do not think the good priests are fiends 1"
"Good priests, fair one," returned she, "have all gone