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Updated: June 15, 2025

At the same moment, Lorenzo Bezan, on his way to Isabella Gonzales, had just reached the foot of the stairs, when hearing quick steps behind him, he turned his head just in time to see the form of the page thrown quickly between the uplifted arm of the same dark figure which he had before met here, and himself-and the point of a gleaming dagger, that must else have entered his own body, found a sheath in that of the young stranger, who had thus probably saved his life.

Maturin Murray Ballou - The Heart's Secret; Or, the Fortunes of a Soldier: a Story of Love and the Low Latitudes.