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"Enough!" she interrupted h, Dubravnik!

What you say to less twaddle You are like all the

others who pit theaged in seeking the freedo of the horrors of Siberia, to which you so glibly refer, you

would shudder when you mention them, and you would fly with horror froht commit a person to Siberia, and exile"

She ca h Siberia before you offered

your services to the czar, you would have strangled yourself, or have

cut out your tongue, rather than have gone to him with any such

dastardly proposition as you confess yourself to have fathered You

prate of stultifying yourself by taking the oath of nihilis your word to Alexander YOU! YOU! A PROFESSIONAL SPY!" She

threw back her head and laughed aloud, not with glee, but with utter

derision of spirit, and I shrank froht have

done froain she was a creature ofin her veins, controlled her With a suddenforward, looked intowhich had hitherto escaped her notice

"What are you doing, Zara?" I asked her; and she replied

"I aht I loved

I a to find what it could have been that I saw in your eyes,