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"Now then, give me your passport and money"

I took out my wallet and handed it to her She inspected it, nodded, and put it with other things while in a sweet drunkenness I kneeled before her leaning ainst her breast

Suddenly she thrusts me aith her foot, leaps up, and pulls the bell-rope In answer to its sound three young, slender negresses enter; they are as if carved of ebony, and are dressed from head to foot in red satin; each one has a rope in her hand

Suddenly I realize my position, and am about to rise Wanda stands proudly erect, her cold beautiful face with its somber brows and contemptuous eyes is turned toward n with her hand, and before I really knohat has happened to round, and have tied me hand and foot As in the case of one about to be executed my arms are bound behind my back, so that I can scarcely move

"Give me the whip, Haydee," coress hands it to her

"And now take off ress obeyed

"The jacket there!" Wanda coht her the kazabaika, set with ermine, which lay on the bed, and Wanda slipped into it with two iniraceful resses lifteda heavy rope around ainst one of the massive pillars which supported the top of the wide Italian bed

Then they suddenly disappeared, as if the earth had sed them

Wanda swiftly approachedtrain, like silver, like ainst the white fur of her jacket Now she stood in front of ht hand she held the whip She uttered an abrupt laugh

"Now play has come to an end between us," she said with heartless coldness "Noill begin in dead earnest You fool, I laugh at you and despise you; you who in your insane infatuation have given yourself as a plaything to er the man I love, but my slave, at my mercy even unto life and death

"You shall know me!