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Zara leaped to her feet and strode rapidly across the roo me

"Oh, my God!" she cried "To think, if you had only told your friends

of the errand, and of the plans you hadthe presence

of the czar, that it would have succeeded and you would have killed

hiain to my side, and seized me by the shoulders, so that

she turned my face until it exactly confronted hers

"Dubravnik," she cried "I can al

to hi--when I look at you In

some ways you are like him, so like him! But I will still deceive

to him about himself It

is easier so Oh, et for the

moment that you are the man I love Ito him--to the brother of Yvonne"

"Alexander was always a coward, and he proved it then He thought that

his hour had coeance for all the lives that he

had taken, was about to fall upon him

"'Do not shoot,' he pleaded 'You shall have any deranted' You only laughed at him

"'Do you knoho I am?' you cried

"'No,' he replied 'Who are you?' "You told hi for

hed,

repeating at every pause he made, those words so terrible for him to