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mine and said: "Are you indeed assured of your own safety, Dubravnik? Ah, yes, I shall

always call you by that name Are you assured of your own safety? Tell

me truly"

"Perfectly; and of yours, also Have no fears"

Then I raised her hands to my lips, and kissed theain; and she, standing on tiptoe, pressed

her lips to my forehead

"Love, honor, and obey," I murmured; and she repeated after me: "Love, honor, and obey"

Then I left her

It was still early in the day, but at that time of the year darkness

settles over the earth while yet the day is young, and night was

already abroad in the streets I had much to do ere the dawn of another

day, for the time had come when the power of the Fraternity of Silence

reed to do for

the czar was nearly co net was ready, and the time had

come to cast it