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luminous light in his eyes that faded before the coldness of her greeting. During the entire two hours of her sitting her eyes were upon him. And there had returned to them contrition and the old, sweet promise, by the time the maid announced tea.
"You will surely stay today?" he asked, eagerly.
For a mere instant she hesitated. Then she shook her head, again the frigid stranger to him.
she entered the house. She went directly to her father's room. "He will be here tonight. I shall carry out my part of the compact under one condition. ' '
He looked at her a moment. "You impose conditions ? ' ' His satisfaction was lost, somewhat, in the harshness of his tone. "Any condition shall be yours, so long as you turn him over to me alive." He opened a secret drawer and raised a pistol of German
BEATRICE CONTINUES TO TANTALIZE CARL
No— but
He watched her face as it seemed to change with many moods, while she paused, irresolute. Then she laid her hand on his sleeve, almost caressingly.
"Instead, wont you come and take tea with me at seven — and spend the evening — please ? ' '
"Why add 'please'? You have said 'come' — nothing on earth could stop me!"
' Beatrice's face was very pale as
manufacture. "Now what is it you demand, Beatrice?"
' ' That you leave him to me until I shall summon you. ' '
1 ' Very well, ' ' he consented, with an impatient shrug of his shoulders.
Carl found Beatrice in the tiny music-chamber just off the conservatory that had supplied the hundreds of clusters of rare flowers that embowered the room. She pretended not to hear him as he entered, tho the