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EXCITEMENT INCREASING. 225 comfort. Of course, he must be strictly guarded. There might be an attempt at evasion again—or at a rescue.” Raven’s eyes were fixed full on his companion’s face. The derisive smile lurking about the officer’s lips told the baron that his former relations with the prisoner were no longer a secret, and that the blow was directed less against Brunnow than against himself. “Hvasion! rescue!” repeated Raven, scornfully. “Tt is too late for thai, I fancy.” “IT hope so too, but I will not neglect the neces- Sary precautions. One can never know what con- nections these refugees may have, or how far their secret influence may extend. This was the com- munication I had to make; now I need not take up your excellency’s time any longer. We shall soon be passing my office. Might I ask to be set down there? I shall, as usual, find a deluge of work awaiting me, no doubt.” A few minutes later, the carriage stopped before the police bureau, and the head of that department took amost affable leave of the baron, who then drove on tothe castle. At length the respite of a few minutes’ solitude was granted him. So many successive blows had fallen on him since the morn- ing! First the minister’s letter, then the disclosure made by Colonel Wilten, now thenews of Brun- now’s arrest. More and more menacing were the signs of the times, and Rudolph’s prophecy was per- haps nearer its fulfillment than he himself had imagined. CHAPTER XVII. EXCITEMENT INCREASING. There was a lonely desolate air about the castle in these days. Baroness von Harder and her daughter had left for the capital, and if the elder lady, with her caprices, her requiring temper, and other not very amiable characteristics, was not painfully - missed by the household, the younger, who had Gomicboo CS (E()