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"Our friends are beco very impatient, Zara"

"Zara!" I unconsciously repeated the name after him, but it was under

my breath, so that not a sound escaped me Who could this iven name, for in h she had already said enough to

convince

"Let them They must wait," she responded, with decision "I will not

be hurried They are sworn to obey me Tell them to await my pleasure

It is enough"

"There are so them--you knoho they are--who chafe under this

restraint, Zara I aet beyond your control

unless so is done speedily"

"Let those who are loyal to me serve then of insubordination," was the haughty

rejoinder "Such is h!

What of Jean Morét?"

"He is dead"

"Dead? Do you know that to be true?"

"No He has disappeared froone to Siberia and our agents cannot find him in the city prisons

We have made every effort Doubtless he betrayed himself in some manner

and was quietly put out of the way"

"I will investigate the ht

and put to the torture I can make Prince Michael tell ht have been induced to talk"

"He ht have betrayed us; he would never betray you, Zara"