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DR. BRUNNOW. JR., TO BE CONVERTED. 139 was swift of foot, and could keep up with any pace; so she yielded to his will and listened. “You told me that this young Baroness von Harder had called on you once,” proceeded Max. “If this | were to occur again, and if, at the same time, As- sessor Winterfeld were accidentally to— “Without Madame von Harder’s knowledge: YP exclaimed Agnes, indignantly. “Never!” “But just refiect a moment——” “Never. It would be wrong, it would be sinful. No one but you would ever have thought of such a plan; but I will not be your accomplice, that I will not!” Fraulein Agnes was crimson with excitement and indignation; the rebuking glance that she shot at Dr. Brunnow was so keen that his eyes would have quailed before it; but Max was a hardened offender. He looked at the ‘girl with unequivocal satisfaction. “ Just see the little vixen,” he said to himself. “I knew very well that all the saintly submission and lamb-like patience were only learned by rote. Get this confounded convent and its teachings once fairly into the background, and a very tolerable little specimen of nature comes to light. I must alter my tactics. So you will not consent?” he added aloud. “No!” declared Agnes, in a tone which conveyed twenty protests. Max put on a look of dejected resignation. “Then the evil must take its course. I have tried, by every means in my power, to ips my friend from any desperate step, and I hoped, by I que help, I might succeed in obtaining for at : farewell meeting with his betrothedzt eae robbed of this last consolation, Iwill not ans the consequences. It is more than likely he will. take his own life.” “He will not do that,” said Agnes, but there was a little secret uneasiness in her tone. “Unfortunately I have cause to dread such a catastrophe» As for Fraulein von Harder, she will, I fear, not survive his death. The crief and an- guish. to which she will be exposed will kill her.” r> Ge. EoOmichboo <S (E(0)