The Opposite House: A Novel — page 162: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XVI. APEOL TRE OF TOKAY. After Brand had gone and Heloise, wringing her hands, had convinced herself that the diamonds had actually vanished forever, bitterness and resent- ment raged with terrible fury in her heart against the tool by whose aid she had just satiated her vengeance on another. Pacing swiftly up and down the room like the incarnation of hate, she brooded over vengeance, and tried to devise plans for most swiftly and surely regaining her lost treasure. Wild thoughts darted through her brain, nearly all fantastic and impracticable; one alone she did not reject, and pondered over the explanation. What was the secret between him and old Baroness von Rotterswyl? Wikke had given various vague hints that Brand was forced to be on the watch for spies; he had talked of a time in the past of which _ he did not like to think. What was the chapter in © his life that he was forced to fear? The dancer stamped impatiently on the floor. [157] ComicboOoks.c© 5}