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I suppose I showed surprise and incredulity in my face, for Heliobas smiled at me and continued: "I will put him to the proof at any ti that he is physically able to carry, and rite the name of whatever it is on a slip of paper, just for uarantee Leo's obedience"

I looked at Zara, and she laughed

"It seeic to you, does it not?" she said; "but I assure you it is quite true"

"I am bound to admit," said Prince Ivan, "that I once doubted both Leo and his master, but I a me a leaf fro that you want; only don't send the dog to Italy on an errand just now, as ant hi-room"

I remembered that I had left an embroidered handkerchief on the couch in Zara's room, and I wrote this down on the paper, which I passed to Heliobas He glanced at it and tore it up Leo was indulging himself with a bone under the table, but ca's head between his two hands, and gazed steadily into the grave brown eyes that regarded hie of looks lasted but a few seconds Leo left the roonified pace, while aited his return--Heliobas and Zara with indifference, Prince Ivan with amusement, and I with interest and expectancy Two or threereturned with the sa between his teeth ht to ed his tail, and conveying a perfectly human expression of satisfaction into his face, went under the table again to his bone I was utterly a since my arrival in Paris, and it was impossible for hinize it as being h the s so?" I asked, with a slight tremor of nervousness

"Not all," returned Heliobas quietly "In fact, I may say, very few Those who are on my own circle of power I can, naturally, draw to or repel from me; but those who are not, have to be treated by different means Sometimes cases occur in which persons, at first NOT on my circle, are irresistibly attracted to it by a force not mine Sometimes, in order to perform a cure, I establish a coht; and to do this is a long and laborious effort But it can be done"