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for who the

charges you uilty" She esture of repulsion, but I took no notice of it,

and went on "I find now, Zara, in the light of what has occurred here

between us, and in the glory of our great love, that I must tell you

who and what I am, and how it happens that I am here with you, at this

ment of ed wonderfully in the last few ht, by this new

difficulty that had coreatest

happiness "I aton, an American I have been, for overnent and secret service officer; so very much after the

character of what you would call over here, a spy Yet, in my country,

Zara, we have no spies, as you understand the term My employment has

been an honorable one, and no ed her

shoulders, and I went on rapidly "In the operation ofseveral times From a distance, and as an

observer only, I have studied nihiliso,

a friend of nize, ca followed, has ended byhere"