There is but little more to add to our tale now.
The reader will comprehend how Adrian, meeting De Cavannes and Diana at Bennington, and taken into the confidence of the former, had assisted him in the ghostly manifestations in the cavern by the aid of De Cavannes’ thorough knowledge of the locality and ropes fixed to some of the stalactites for the purpose of executing their aërial flight over the lake, shining in suits covered with phosphorus.
It only remains to add that Adrian and Diana were married the year after, and departed with the count to Europe. By this time the count’s estates had paid off their incumbrances by the rents in the course of twenty years, and De Cavannes was once more a rich man.
He was one of the few nobles of France who took the popular side along with Lafayette during the French Revolution, and lived to see Adrian a General under the Empire. But all his subsequent fortunes never wiped out the memories of the past, and he often recounted to his grandchildren the pranks he played the savages in America under the name of Black Nick.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Now Manchester.
[2] Historically correct.