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A SILVER BRAND. 79 and consternation in the young gentleman’s voice. His color faded again into pallor. “Shall I bring you some more coffee?” ‘she asked, eagerly, and then laughed at the perplexity of . his look. “I don’t wonder you are amazed at my effrontery, Mr. Dalberg. Just confessing ‘having drugged your wine, I coolly propose to bring you another beverage. But Ideclare to you, by every- thing sacred, that the coffee is innocent.” He sat staring at her in silence. Unconsciously he put his hand into his pocket. He drew it out hastily, and went diving into the other, searching evidently for something that was not to be found. “Don’t look for the bank-book er the papers for you will not find them. My dear Mr. Dalberg, I don’t wonder you are horrified. You feelas if you had fallen into a den of villainy.” “Will your ladyship be good enough. to call the baron, or send a servant for him ?” | Still she smiled down upon him, cool and calm, and dazzlingly beautiful. “Nay, not yet!—not quite yet, Mr. Dalberg. Since | am the only one who can answer you freely, it were better not to send me away until you are thoroughly enlightened.” . Gath He looked at her uneasily. The white lids dropped slowly over the dazzling eyes, a look of seeming weariness and pain crossed her face. The lips curled poutingly like a grieved child’s. « Alas!” she murmured, sorrowfully, “he distrusts © me thoroughly. He will put no more confidence in me.. Oh, that I could show him the sore strait that drove me to it.” “Nay, Lady Theresa,” said Aubrey, gravely, “I am hardly prepared for any judgment at all in the matter. Sincelam still so much in the dark con- cerning it all, I cannot conceive any reason why you should wish to prolong my stay here. But the loss of my private papers, and especially of the - passport made ready for my departure, may greatly embarrass me. For you are aware I leave Germany on Monday.” GComicbooks com