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had just passed; and I was suddenly aware of the danger which

threatened h ht, selfishly

enough, only of what she had said about my own peril I had remembered

only that I was the object of a planned assassination, because some one

whom I had not discovered at the tiarden to which I had been a witness the preceding night, and had

also listened to the one that followed it, between Zara and me

The thrill of alarm that convulsed me, when the full realization of

this aspect of the affair ca Whatever the friends of nihilis effect upon her, also Nothing could touch me, that

would not injure her We had beco

so absorbed in each other, so blended in soul and in thought, that

whatever affected one, ed from the standpoint of the nihilists theh in their determination to kill

me From their view of the case, I was merely a spy, or at least

a prospective one, who had overheard a confidence delivered by the

Princess Zara de Echeveria, which placed her so absolutely in oes, in the hollow of uess, that noe had learned to love

each other, and that she was dearer and sweeter to me than all else in

the world