IV.

They say that, some time after this event, a hunter who, having lost his

way, had been obliged to pass the Night of the Dead on the Spirits’

Mountain, and who in the morning, before he died, was able to relate

what he had seen, told a tale of horror. Among other awful sights, he

avowed he beheld the skeletons of the ancient Knights Templars and of

the nobles of Soria, buried in the cloister of the chapel, rise at the

hour of the Angelus with a horrible rattle and, mounted on their bony

steeds, chase, as a wild beast, a beautiful woman, pallid, with

streaming hair, who, uttering cries of terror and anguish, had been

wandering, with bare and bloody feet, about the tomb of Alonso.

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