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"Confine me!"--nonplussed This was more than I had reckoned on

"Yes" She reached out to strike the gong (I can not be bla so tamely I didn't know that the old servitor was the

only man around)

"I aether instinctively, as if one desired to protect

the other from some unknown calamity What the deuce was it all about?

All at once Gretchen thrust aside her friend and approached The table

was between us, and she rested her hands upon it Our glances met and

clashed

"Did the duke send you here?" she de deeper than ever "The duke?"

"Yes I aarde"