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The effect of the whisper wasthat had been dark

before, became clear as noonday; and Sir Norman sat absolutely astounded

at his own stupidity in not having found it out for hiuise of wig and beard, becah the well-assunized the royal tones It struck him all at once, and with it the

fact of Leoline's increased danger Count L'Estrange was a forland was even ht is quick--quicker than the electric telegraph or balloon

traveling; and in two seconds the whole stated things, with all the

attendant surprises and dangers, danced before his mind's eye like a

panorama; and he comprehended the past, the present, and the future,

before Hubert had uttered the last word of his whisper He turned his

eyes, with a very new and singular sensation, upon the quonda very hard at hirave expression of countenance Sir Nor eneral good nature, it was not safe to trifle with hin of emotion whatever, and

resolved to treat hie until he should choose to sail

under his own proper colors

"Well," said the count, with unruffled eagerness, "and so you decline to