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"We are approaching the frontier" She shaded her eyes and searched

the speeding blackness outside

"How far is it to the capital?" he asked

"It lies two miles beyond the frontier"

Silence fell upon theth the train stopped with a jerk

In what seeuard unlocked the

door

He peered in

"Here they are, sure enough, your Excellency!" addressing some one in

the dark beyond

An officer from the military household of the Prince of Doppelkinn was

instantly frairl tried to lower her veil; too

late

"I arand duke's

orders are that you shall follow

twotoward Scharfenstein

Max stared duirl All the world seeive me!" she said, low but impulsively

"What does it arde of Barscheit, and your entering this

carriage has proved the greatest possiblehad been going along so

nicely--the dinner he had planned in Dresden, and all that!

"And they believe," the girl went on, "that I have eloped with you to

avoidthe prince" She turned to the officer in the doorway