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"You heard?"

"Yes, princess, I heard"

She was silent, and an to wonder if she had decided to say no lish, "will you do ard to this conversation you have overheard? Will you keep ain at the princess' coolness Realizing the peril she was

in, as she e that she could

command herself so well as to remain perfectly in possession of all her

faculties, in the face of such dire peril

For a reat favor that she asked of

reat a favor it was, she could not know; and

yet there was no reason why I should not grant her request, being what

I was and who I was In that interval I wondered what this beautiful

creature before uessed that

it was the chief of the most remarkable secret service bureau in the

world whouessed that the very

ht of taking

into her confidence, was the one before her who had listened to the

conversation

"Yes I will do that," I replied, as deliberately as she had asked the