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"Are you aware, dear lady, what the result of such a step would be?"

"Death!" she said, coldly

"Death, transportation, or life-long irace to many a noble house; for some I saw there were once

friends ofthe

dwarf and his attendant imps to Tyburn, and treat theh the notion of being

informer, even then, would not be very pleasant; but as it is, I cannot

be the death of one without ruining all, and as I told you, some of

those were once my friends No, madame, I cannot do it I have but once

to die and I prefer death here, to purchasing life at such a price"

There was a short silence, during which they gazed into each other's

eyes ominously, and one was about as colorless as the other

"You refuse?" she coldly said

"I must! But if you can save my life, as you say, why not do it, and fly

with rateful of friends, while

life remains"

"You are very kind; but I want no friendship, Sir Nor, I could have done that any time since we came

here, for I have found out a secret means of exit fro of But I have staid to see him dead at