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BOO acs A SILVER BRAND, shoulder, and Stephano, erating his teeth in impotent rage, fell back again in hopeless apathy. There were evident preparations on board the schooner for their arrival. A chair was lowered noiselessly and the passive maidens drawn up, and hurried across the deck down into the cabin. To Serena’s intense relief Stephano was also allowed a place in the cabin, although from what she heard she judged it was but a temporary arrangement. By daylight the sails were shaken out, the anchors _ lifted, and the schooner slowly glided down the stream. CHAPTER XX VI. “HEAVEN HELP TO REWARD YOU.” A dead calm seeméd to brood above Schwarzenberg Heights that next day after the midnight visit of the prince and his suite; but it was like the thrilling hush that gives portentous warning of the hurricane’s approach. The very menials glanced at each other with looks of apprehension and dismay. Von Schubert. went around with a pale, stern face and gleaming eyes. Only Hernberg was cool, and smiling, and apparently undisturbed. Contrary to the general expectation there was no prepar- ations for breaking down any walls in the house. Hern- berg received occasionally a whispered communication from one of. the guard outside, and returned a quiet, low- spoken command. Otherwise one would have imagined he was on avisit of pleasure. He walked around the house, giving due expression to his admiration for this. old carving, and that renowned piece of armor—curious and interested in any bit of family history that dropped from any one, and serene and imperturbable -as though undisturbed in mind. The baron’s family were invisible. ‘And no wonder,” quoth Hernberg, with a shrug of his shoulders, when he had carelessly inquired for them of _ the butler. : “One needs to sleep half aday to makeup for sucha sudden disturbance at night. I would advise, Herr von Schubert to follow their example. His life of retirement here has evidently unfitted him to bear fatigue. He wears quite a haggard face.” If Hernberg could have looked within, and read all the tumultuous thoughts, the fierce struggles, the chaos of tempting and threatening that assailed poor Von Schu- EOMICDOOKS:. co m