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And then she turned, slowly pacing across the loggia and entering the Palazzo, where the gleam of electric laht

Meanwhile, Morgana, between her two escorts stepped lightly along, playfully arguing with theood Padre Aloysius!" she said--"And you, Marchese--you who are generally so charht you are a verythe 'White Eagle!'--how cross of you!"

"Madama, I think of your safety,"--he said, curtly

"It is kind of you! But if I do not care for my safety?"

"I do!" he said, decisively

"And I also!"--said Aloysius, earnestly--"Dear lady, be advised! Think noin the vast spaces of air alone--alone with an enorht fail at any moment--"

"It cannot fail unless the laws of nature fail!"--said Morgana, ee it is that neither of you seele' is natural force alone! However--you are but men!" Here she stopped in her walk, and her brilliant eyes flashed froed in obstinacy!--yes!--you cannot help yourselves! Even Father Aloysius--" she paused, as she rave eyes fixed full upon her

"Well!" he said gently--"What of Father Aloysius? He is 'butin common with your wealth or your self-will, my child!--one whose soul adence ruling the universe, and fronorance We are but dust on the wind before this hty power!--even you, with all your study and attainment are but a little phantom on the air!"

She smiled as he spoke

"True!" she said--"And you would save this phanto into air utterly?"

"I would!" he answered--"I would fain place you in God's keeping,"--and with a gesture infinitely tender and solen of the cross above her head--"with a prayer that you led ways of life as lived in these days, to the true realisation of happiness!"

She caught his hand and iood!" she said--"And I aht here--we are just at the gate Good night, Marchese! I proo alone There!--be satisfied!" And she gave hientle "Good night" to Aloysius, she turned away and left theroith trees, so that her figure was almost immediately lost to view