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to prepare surprises for the agreeable entertainentlemen, the cardinals and princes of the Church, crowded

around hi for an explanation of the mystery, a disclosure of

the secret

"I a; "some

divinity may have taken a seat there, or perhaps it is a sphinx which

will fro to us"

And the cardinal with zealous precipitation approached the principal

entrance to the hall, the portieres of which had just been drawn

aside, and behind was seen Natalie at the hand of Paulo

As if blinded by the sudden flood of light, she stood for aher delicate cheeks, and clinging to

Paulo's arhtened by

this crowd!"

Just at that moment the doorkeeper cried with a loud voice: "Princess

Natalie Tartaroff and Count Paulo!"

At the sound of these strange na, curious, prying eyes were fixed with astonish lanced at Paulo with a glad smile,

and a proud happiness beamed froer an abandoned, nama of

her birth was solved, and what she had so often prayed for, Count Paulo

had vouchsafed her as a surprise to-day