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Men ran to join their comrades, impatient only for opportunity to strike a blow at the foe, leaving the Princess in the midst of a little band, evidently a picked bodyguard, among them Baron Petrescu and Dumitru. For a moment Ellerey watched her. She had come. There was no sign of fear in her face; how should there be? Did he not know her courage?
"No, let her sleep awhile," said Ellerey, as he went back into the corridor. Then he turned to Dumitru. "Is there a way of escape open?" "Yes." "When will you go?" "When the Princess commands, unless it should be necessary suddenly," Dumitru answered. "There are servants watching who will let me know. The Countess has arranged."
Doubtless she had meant to go when Frina had left her that morning, and had got her out of the way on purpose. It was Dumitru who had suggested her going into the Bois; it was Dumitru, probably, who had persuaded Maritza that the time to act had come.
Willing hands had opened the low door in the wall for them, forewarned of their coming by Dumitru. Ellerey's fame had run before him, and eagerly was he looked for and recognized as the leader of the rebellion which must quickly follow the work going forward in the city to-night.
"I am not sure the other man is dead," he said. "Might I suggest that the Countess should drive as usual, and hear what is said in the Bois? Then to-night we can plan and arrange. The time has surely come." "Will you, Frina?" "I will, and you may rest assured that I will have the whole story by to-night." When she had left the room Princess Maritza turned hastily. "What more, Dumitru?"
"Grigosie," said Ellerey to the soldier beside him as he saw Dumitru fall. He used the name that Stefan might understand to the full. Was there anything that Stefan would not do for Grigosie? Frina Mavrodin stood for a moment alone above the surging, fighting mass.
Not for a moment did Frina suppose that Dumitru was cognizant of the fact that her house would be searched; she did not believe that they had gone to escape discovery. If such had been the case she would have been taken into their confidence.
"Yes," Frina answered, and Dumitru went to pursue his way through the city, calling men to arm and prepare, little dreaming what thoughts troubled the beautiful woman he had left. The frail little hopes she had found consolation in vanished at Dumitru's words. Desmond Ellerey loved Maritza. Dumitru had said it, and had he not had ample opportunity of judging?
In silence the two women kissed each other, and then Frina returned to her room while Maritza threw herself on a couch, Hannah watching beside her. Dumitru stood sentinel outside her door. For Frina there was no sleep, only a restless pacing to and fro, and a longing for to-morrow the end, surely the end would come to-morrow. The dim light in her room grew dimmer, paling before the coming day.
"You distrust this Captain, Princess?" "No; he may yet do good work for us." For a long time she continued to speak in a whisper. "It is madness," murmured the man. "Wise men would call all I have done madness," she answered. "Listen, Dumitru, there is more." When she had finished there was silence. "You would have me play the traitor," said the man, slowly.
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