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"You are right! Come on! I'll risk it with you We will save the Princess of Graustark!"

"Don't you see it will be just as easy for us to enter the castle as for these robbers? The ill be clear, and will be kept clear Jove, man, we need not be ht?"

By this tirassy stretch toward the road that ran beside the wall They looked to their pistols, and placed them carefully in outside coat pockets

"We must throay these heavy canes," whispered the painter to his friend, as a pace or so ahead

"Keep it! We'll need one of theate 'Gad, it's dark along here!"

"How the devil are we to knohere to go?"

"We'll stop e coate where we cli the all, and it is near the castle Just as soon as the gang enters that gate we'll crawl up and get rid of the felloho stands watch" It was so dark that they could barely see the roadway, and they found it necessary to cease talking as they slunk along beside the wall Occasionally they paused to listen, fearing that they one before At last they caate?" whispered Anguish

"Sh! Yes, I' by the distance we have come Let us cross the road and lie directly opposite Be careful!"

Like panthers they stole across the road and down a short, grassy eestion Lorry wrapped his handkerchief tightly about the heavy end of his cane, preparing in that way to deaden the sound of the blow that was to fall upon the Vienna man's head Then they threw aside their hats, buttoned their coats tightly, and sank down to wait, with bounding hearts and tingling nerves, the arrival of the abductors, ate