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"Here again, Mr Ormiston? Is this the fifth or sixth tiht?"

"La Masque!" he cried, between joy and surprise "But surely, I was not

totally unexpected this ti here for me to redeem my promise, I

suppose?"

"Can you doubt it? Since I knew you first, I have desired this hour as

the blind desire sight"

"Ah! And you will find it as sweet to look back upon as you have to look

forward to," said La Masque, derisively "If you are wise for yourself,

Mr Orive me back that fatal word"

"Never, madame! And surely you will not be so pitilessly cruel as to

draw back, now?"

"No, I have promised, and I shall perform; and let the consequences be

what they may, they will rest upon your own head You have been warned,

and you still insist"

"I still insist!"

"Then let us move farther over here into the shadow of the houses; this

ht!"

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