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"There is more, much more to say. Why did you not keep your promise and return to me in London? What do you know of Selinski's murder? Speak, man; you have nothing to fear from me!" I had clutched his shoulder, and he made no attempt to free himself, but drooped passively under my hand. But his quiet reply was inflexible. "Of all that I can tell you nothing, Excellency. It is best forgotten."
"The Countess Anna she was Grand Duchess then, though we never addressed her so made her plan speedily, as she ever did. She slipped away, with only her cousin Stepán and I. My master did not know. He thought she was in her cabin after dinner. "We rowed swiftly up the river, the tide was near flood, and I waited in the boat while they went to Selinski's; Yossof had given them the key.
He shrugged his shoulders. "I had to choose, either to fly with them, and thereby endanger us all still further, or allow myself to be taken. That last seemed best, and I think I am sure I was right." "Did you know the soldiers were coming?" "No. That, by the way, was Selinski's doing, Cassavetti, as you call him." "Cassavetti!" I exclaimed. "Why, he was dead weeks before!"
And it was quite easy, since you never suspected that she was not the Fraulein you knew, and loved hein? She herself, too, had borne the burden so long, had toiled, and schemed, and suffered for the Cause; while this sister had always been shielded; knew nothing, cared nothing for the Cause, though, indirectly, she had suffered somewhat through that mistake on the part of Selinski's accomplices.
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