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Pe © Per ee, 7 AY - Vir - - - 7 a 7 ~ - re. ‘: y * es Ld — A SILVER BRAND. | 207 So, I will not fear,” she cried, speaking in low but earnest and agitated accents. Re | “IT am like your husband,” repeated Aubrey, his thoughts following the personal interest. ‘Ah, madam, will it help you to explain for me the doubt and perplexity that overwhelms me?” : : ‘‘Let us reach the lower corridor, and you shall hear all - that I can tell. I must take counsel with the generous man who has risked not only his own life, but the comfort and security of his wife and child, to help me,” she whis- . pered back. Aubrey fell into silence, following after her swift, un- faltering steps as she threaded the doubtful way in front of him. 4 7 i They reached at length after a long passage through the dark, close avenue, a round, circular room, not much larger, indeed, than an-ordinary closet. A man started up from the stone seat there, and turned a startled face ~ upon Aubrey. , “Do not be alarmed. Ihave found another friend. I have found one who knows my child. Tell me, I beseech you, about her? . How she looked, what she said?” spoke - the Lady Pauline; and turned her eager eyes upon Aubrey. “But, dear lady,” interposed Carl, for it was he, “do you forget that imminent danger threatens us? Do you forget that the night whose mioments are so precious in — helping us near the port is passing swiftly 2?” She wrung her hands in dismay. “Should, I, too, pass this -:providential opportunity of hearing about my daughter? It is too cruel to lose it.” ‘‘Your life is more precious, and’ the opportunity to reach America and see her yourself. Our planis a desperate one at its best,” he returned. “Heaven only knows what will become of us if our escape is discovered before morn- ing. I pray you to think of all that is at stake.” “But he is going home; he is going to America and will see her. Imay never reachit. I want him to take her my message, to warn her against Sebastian Schrodter, to tell her of the frightful fate that menaces her.” ‘‘Tet her tell me, and I will make my way to her daugh- ter though I find her surrounded by a cordon of dragons !” exclaimed Aubrey, eagerly. “Ves, let me tell him my whole story, that, should the worst come to me, my daughter may know the truth,” im- plored Lady Pauline. - And iu alow, faint, yet sternly controlled voice she re ~cecomicbooks:.co