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And he sprang forward to renew the coly between hio on Zara herself forbids it!"

The Prince paused, and looked at me in a sort of stupefaction

"Zara forbids it!" he muttered "What do you mean?"

"I mean," I went on, "that I have seen Zara since her death; I have spoken to her She herself sent me here"

Prince Ivan stared, and then burst into a fit of wild laughter

"Little fool!" he cried to me; "he has irl! out of e! while I ahly aside, he cast away his sword, and shouted to Heliobas: "Hand to hand, villain! No more of these toy-weapons! Hand to hand!"

Heliobas instantly thren his sword also, and rushing forward sie conflict Heliobas was the taller and more powerful of the two, but Prince Ivan see at his opponent's throat with the silent breathless ferocity of a tiger At first Heliobas appeared to be siile, skilful rappling eagerness But as I watched the struggle, e Instead of its calm and almost indifferent expression, there cae deter on positive cruelty In aplace in his mind The animal passions of the otten The excite to tell, and the desire of victory was doenerally--and should have been now-- those of patient endurance and large generosity

The fight grew closer, hotter, and more terrible Suddenly the Prince swerved aside and fell, and within a second Heliobas held hiainst his chest From my point of observation I noted with alarm that little by little Ivan ceased his violent efforts to rise, and that he kept his eyes fixed on the overshadowing face of his foe with an unnatural and curious pertinacity I stepped forward Heliobas pressed his whole weight heavily down on the young man's prostrate body, while with both hands he held hi into his fast-paling countenance Ivan's lips turned blue; his eyes appeared to start from their sockets; his throat rattled The spell that held ht, a flood of ence I knew that Heliobas was exciting the whole battery of his inner electric force, and that thus eeance, it must infallibly cause death I found my speech at last