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The princess did not start--she did not even look surprised when I

uttered the strange sentence, but her great round eyes welled up in

tears, and she caught her breath in a half-sob once Then, without

uttering a word, she extended her hand and placed it in mine, and we

remained thus, for a moment silent Presently, in a lohisper, I

heard her repeat after me, the words, "Love, honor, and obey;" and she

added: "As long as we both shall live"

With a quick gesture that was purely feminine, she withdrew her hand

fro hair away froazed upon the snow clad city, and thus she

remained for several minutes

Presently she returned and cae, is it not, Mr Derrington?" she asked in a low voice

"I do not think that I am myself to-day It is hard to realize that

this is Zara de Echeveria who speaks to you now I ah another spirit had entered an last night when you first

entered my presence It was evident tothat you had overheard the conversation

between ether under the green light later in the evening, when you told ement made with you to-day, and when you

entered this rooed to

h I had no right to