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There might have been a thousand persons traversing the paths, and I could not have heard them, but I was presently startled out of my reveries by hearing my own name or rather the one by which I was known pronounced in a voice which I had learned, in a few brief moments, to recognize. "Dubravnik," said the princess, evidently in reply to a question concerning me.
Zara saw and correctly interpreted the glance, for as he left the room upon my assurance that I would follow him at once she put her hands in mine and said: "Are you indeed assured of your own safety, Dubravnik? Ah, yes, I shall always call you by that name. Are you assured of your own safety? Tell me truly." "Perfectly; and of yours, also. Have no fears."
Their friends will know it, also." "You mistake. I had not forgotten that. But I have remembered that you are here to protect me, Dubravnik. What have I to fear when you are near me?" It was sweet indeed to hear her say such words, sweeter still to realize the full import of them.
I replied, mindful only of the fact that she had spoken; unmindful of the import of what she said. "Only one way," Zara repeated. "You must join the nihilists. You must take the oath." I shook my head with emphasis, brought back suddenly to the intent of her words. "It is impossible, Zara," I said. "You must do it, Dubravnik." "No." "I say that you must do it. You must take the oath.
Instead, she stood calmly beyond the table, leaning gently upon it with one hand, and gazed across the space that separated us, while she said, coolly, and not without contempt: "Complete your story, Dubravnik. It interests me. I shall be glad indeed to hear it, finding as I now do, that I have permitted myself to fall in love with a professional spy." God! how her tone hurt me!
"You, Dubravnik," she continued from the point where she so sweetly interrupted herself, "have become the universe to me, now. You are the infinite space which comprehends all."
And we need more than courage, Dubravnik; we need resource." "Resource is something with which we are both moderately well provided," I suggested, smiling, and still refusing to accept her words as seriously as she intended them. She stamped her foot impatiently upon the rug, and frowned a little, with a touch of petulance in her manner that was the most bewitching thing I had yet seen about her.
She withdrew from me and crossed to the window, where she stood looking out upon the snow clad street; suddenly she started, and turned to me. How beautiful she was and how I loved her at that moment! "Come here, Dubravnik," she said. I obeyed, and in an instant was at her side at the window. "What is it?" I asked. "There; look yonder. Do you see that karetta, just beyond the corner?" "Yes.
"I did not have an opportunity, for you never asked me to do so," said the soft tones of the princess immediately behind me; and as I turned she added: "but these rooms are suffocating, so if you will give me your arm now, Mr. Dubravnik, we will lead the way, and perhaps the others will follow. I know that the gentlemen are longing for an opportunity to smoke."
I asked, recalling the mention of my name between them at that time. "Yes; I had said to him that you were the kind of a man who should be added to our ranks. I think you must have heard his reply." "Yes." "Do you know what nihilism is, Mr. Dubravnik?" "No. I have always regarded it as a dangerous organization; morally dangerous, I mean.
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