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The startling assertion created a fresh sensation Sensations had come so thick and so fast, however, that they see clie undisputed

"Harry!" cried Lorry

"Prince Gabriel, why do you shake like a leaf? Is it because you knohat I aer accusingly at the astonished Prince of Dawsbergen

Gabriel's lips parted, but nothing ht the door, then the s, the peculiar uncontrollable look of the hunted coaze to leap instantly to that pallid face and every eye in the roo

"An accomplice has confessed all I have the word of the e Prince Gabriel with the roan, Gabriel threw his hands to his heart and tottered forward, glaring at the merciless face of the accuser

"Confessed! Betrayed!" he faltered Then he whirled like a maniac upon his little coterie of followers "Vile traitor!" he shrieked, "I will drink your heart's blood!"

With a howl he leaped toward one of theThe latter evaded hi: "It is a lie! a lie! He has tricked you! I did not confess!"

The Prince was seized by his friends, struggling and cursing A peculiar suish

"I repeat, he is the assassin!"

Gabriel broke fro a revolver, rushed for the door

"Out of the way! I will not be taken alive!"

Allode rasped hi the weapon fro, --and above all could be heard the howls of the accused Prince

"Let o! Curse you! Curse you! I will not surrender! Lethad been seized by willing hands, and the two e, the other shrinking with fear

Dangloss and Allode half carried, half dragged the Prince forward As he neared Bolaroz and the Princess he collapsed and becauish's accusation had struck home

"Prince Bolaroz, I trust you will not object if the Princess Yetive substitutes the true assassin for the uish, dra from a dream, turned and knelt before the throne