Lilith's laugh changed into a burst of sobbing
and weeping, and in another moment the ghost was in the arms of the
vampire.
"Lilith had no idea how far her father had wronged Karl, and though, from
thinking over the past, he had no doubt that the painter had drugged him,
he did not wish to pain her by imparting this conviction. But Lilith was
afraid of a reaction of rage and hatred in her father after the terror was
removed; and Karl saw that he might thus be deprived of all further
intercourse with Lilith, and all chance of softening the old man's heart
towards him; while Lilith would not hear of forsaking him who had banished
all the human race but herself. They managed at length to agree upon a
plan of operation.
"The first thing they did was to go to the cellar where the plaster mass
lay, Karl carrying with him a great axe used for cleaving wood. Lilith
shuddered when she saw it, stained as it was with the wine Heinrich had
spilt over it, and almost believed herself the midnight companion of a
vampire after all, visiting with him the terrible corpse in which he lived
all day.
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