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154 A SILVER BRAND. ‘‘It was the first place White and I visited at daybreak,” answered Nat. ‘“‘The surf was too high to get into the cave, but we called and called without obtaining any answer. At low tide White will go again, but Ido not think it will avail. I donot believe itis on such a track we are to look but let us goin with the story to the justice, and set a detective at work.” Paul Foss obeyed meekly, all the while pondering upon the oddness of his thus tacitly admitting the authority,. and secretly acknowledging the superior judgment of the hermit taxidermist, CHAPTER XV. LADY THERESA’S PROMISE. “You have a story to tell me,” said the Baron Valentin, courteously ; “well, if I ama voluble talker, I have the compensating merit of being also an admirable listener. _ Let me hear it by all means, Herr Dalberg.” Aubrey was a little disturbed by Lady Theresa’s man- ner, and not inclined to any further. communications, but his own ardent desire to explain to his fair unknown the meaning of that coat of arms induced him to repeat the story in as brief terms as possible, meantime watching closely every shade of expression on his listener’s face. The baron’s manner of receiving it was somewhat diffi- cult to decipher. Now he smiled proudly, and anon, his face darkened, but upon the whole he seemed singularly pleased. | He rose quietly and walking to a secretaire, unlocked a drawer, and took out a piece of paper, and brought it back to the young man. % “Ts that the drawing she gave you?” “The very same!” answered Aubrey, eagerly, holding it up, and comparing it, line by line, with the armorial de- vice emblazed a dozen times on the several articles of furniture around him. “Yes. Roderich took it out of the pocket-book with the other private papers. We thought you had copied it your- self, and I laid it away in the drawer yonder. So she drew it herself and could not guess its meaning.” “It is the Schwarzenberg device !” exclaimed Aubrey, in profound amazement. “Yes, it is the Schwarzenberg crest,” replied the baron. Eomicbooks com >