A Silver Brand — page 67: what you’re looking at

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A SILVER BRAND. 5 59 “Monster! Oh, horrible, horrible monster! I was mad, indeed, to think anything could move your — flinty heart. You knew before you asked that those conditions were both impossible. Not even to spare the living will I so infamously wrong the noble dead. Away! Iam fitly punished! I will suppli- cate only for Heaven’s help!” she cried, wildly. How those blue eyes blazed; what fiery wrath flashed across them. Whiter her face could not have been had it been dead. Even this hardened sinner quailed fora moment | ~ in her presence. “Lady Pauline,” he faltered, “your trials have : turned your brain. It is not so terrible a thing I ask.” ee aie | es She waved him back sternly. : “Get thee behind me, Satan! Iwill not speak another word in your presence!” : And the white lips closed, shut together with a look on them that seemed to defy even brute force to unlock their seal. With muttered curses the prince withdrew, glanc- ing apprehensively toward the darkening sky. “T-have no time longer, even for the sake of torturing her. I must be back by ten in the even- ing, for the court fete, and if the weather lowers it will require hard riding to do it. The king must not miss me nor that cursed spying minister suspect my © visits here.” He hurried down the stairs, growled out a few angry directions to Seippel, resumed the black cloak and the mask he always wore upon these secret visits, called the ruffian attendants who journeyed on such deeds always by his side, armed to the teeth to defend him against the constantly feared and well-deserved assassination this coward heart dreaded, and in an hour was gone. The Lady Pauline stood on the roof, with the miniature in her hand, and both arms stretched heavenward. “Oh, merciful and all-powerful, hear me! help me! Only from Heaven can help come?” | oo While she stood thus, with those wild, agonized, Comicboo cS com