Argosy, Vol. 1 (December 9, 1882) — page 144: what you’re looking at

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THE BROTHERHOOD OF SILENCE. 137 resolution to remain calm and to continue to be master of the situation, ‘I think there is another way; I believe that something can be done; I will help you; I do see why you suffer, but I dare not confess it even to myself. If you will trust to me, and will obey me implicitly in all that I direct you to do, there is a way, and neither you nor your brother shall come to harm. Will you trust to me?” ‘Yes, oh, yes,’ she cried unhesitatingly. “‘ What am I to do?”’ ‘‘ Call the servant who is to take the message.” She turned to the door without another word, and disappeared through it. The moment she was gone, I took a fountain pen and a pad of paper from my pocket, and wrote rapidly—or seemed to write, for the pen left no trace upon the paper. My invisible note was completed, and I was writing with another pen upon a second sheet of paper when the princess reéntered the room. This time the writing was plainly visible, and while I asked her for an envelope I passed it to her to read. _It was addressed to my friend, Canfield, who had charge of the messenger service, and merely instructed him to forward the packages that had been left with him that morning to their several addresses without delay. It was signed, “ Dubravnik.” “ Ts this the note my servant is to take? ” she asked incredulously. 6¢ Yes.” I folded the apparently blank sheet with the other and placed them both in the envelope, which I had already addressed. “You see there is no harm in that note, even if the men outside should read it,’ I added when the servant had departed. “ Your man, who is, of course, a spy, will read the note, which I purposely left unsealed, as soon as he ts out of sight of the house. In an hour, every man who is waiting to take my life will be in prison. If your brother is among them, he will not be harmed and you ” I hesitated, and she raised her eyes to mine and said: “Well, and I?” . “You will have to do as you have agreed to do, obey me.” I hesitated again, and then, with desperate courage, added: “Love, honor, and obey me, Olga.” CHAPTER XI.—THE POWER OF THE BROTHERHOOD. THE princess did not start—she did not even look surprised when I uttered the strange sentence that closed the last chapter, but her great round eyes welled up with tears, and she caught her breath once or twice. Then, without uttering a word, she extended her hand and placed it in mine, sand we remained thus, for a moment, silent. Presently, in a low whisper, I heard her repeat after me, the words, “ Love, honor, and obey ;”’ and she added: “ As long as we both shall live.” With a quick gesture that was purely feminine, she withdrew her hand from mine and thrust the clustering hair awav from her temples. Then she GOH GoOOO ‘SS COLNT