The Price He Paid — page 218: what you’re looking at

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DOCTOR FRANZ. 209 word that stands in it, and there are thousands who will agree with me. Beware, Arno! He is the first who ventures to defy the omnipotent Baron von Raven; this is the first storm menacing your high estate. Others will follow in its wake, and they will shake and undermine the ground on which you stand, until it trembles and yawns be- neath your feet, and you will sink to depths great as the height to which you have risen.” “You think so?”” asked the baron, disdainfully. “You should know me better. I may be over- thrown, and in my fall mortally injure myself and crush others. To sink would in this case imply a craven surrender, and that is not in my nature. Besides, we have not reached that point yet. I know all the enmities which this attack will let loose upon me; my foes have long waited for some such occasion; but they shall not taste the triumph of seeing me abandon a position which I have so long maintained and will never voluntarily quit. Men ao not readily surrender success such as I have achieved.” “It was dearly bought,” said Brunnow, coldly. “You paid for it with your honor.” “Rudolph!” thundered the baron, with terrible vehemence. “With your honor, I repeat it. Must I remind you of the day when our association was betrayed, our papers seized, ourselves arrested and cast into prison? Must-I name to you the traitor to whom we owed all this, and who was arrested with us, merely as a matter of form? I and the others were put on our trial, and sentenced to long years of captivity, from which fate a foolhardy escape alene delivered me. After a short imprisonment that _ traitor was set at liberty, no charge being pre- ferred against him. Weathering the storm which cost his friends and fellow-thinkers their freedom and their means of existence, Arno Raven emerged from it as the secretary, the familiar, the future son-in-law of the minister in power, and commenced his brilliant career in the service of the cause he had sworn to combat with all his strength. That was Eomichboo <S (E()