The Price He Paid — page 154: what you’re looking at

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DR. BRUNNOW, JR., TO BE CONVERTED, 145 But now the spell is broken. Yonder, in the great city, I shall be released from the ties which have hitherto bound me to the superior officer under whose immediate orders I stood.” “What do you mean?” asked Gabrielle, uneasily. _ “VT do not understand your allusions.” “Itis not meet you should,” said George, firmly ; “but promise me one thing. Whatever you may hear, believe that no personal enmity, no base de- sire for revenge, has prompted me to action. Long ago LIresolved I would take up the glove against the governor of our province, for taken up it must be; and there was no one else who ventured to en- ter the lists with the omnipotent Raven. Your guardian, with unnecessary harshness has refused me your hand, has refused me evena glimmer of hope in the future—he who, when he paid his court to the great minister’s daughter, had no more to — offer than 1 have! Was it strange that we parted as open enemies? For the time to come, I will be guided by that alone which I deem duty. And now —farewell!” “George, you cannot, must not leave me so—not with these vague menaces which distress me un- speakably. What are you thinking of doing? I must and will know.” “Do not ask me to speak more openly,” said the young man, in gentle but decided tones. “For your own sake, I will not make you privy to my inten- tions. You-arenotfreeaslam. You must remain ‘ here under the same roof with your guardian; you are thrown into daily intercourse with him. It would be a constant burden on you, were you to share even in thought in any——” “In any plot against him?” cried Gabrielle; and there was so strange, so vibrating a ring in her voice, that George started. “ Against Baron von Raven, you mean?” he asked slowly. “You donot suspect me of anything dis- honorable?” | “No, no; but I fear—for you—for us all!” _ “Set your mind at rest. I shall fight with my visor up, and shall speak in the name of hundreds Eomilcboo “S (E(0)