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Yet as for your instrument, your cunning butler Come, Vanringham!" he barked. "We are unarmed. Come, tall man, for I who am well-nigh a dwarf now mean to kill you with my naked hands." "Vanringham!" The Prince leaped forward. "Behind me, Vanringham!" As the valet ran to him the old Prince de Gatinais caught a knife from the table and buried it to the handle in Vanringham's breast.

MR. ERWYN, betrothed to Lady Allonby. VANRINGHAM, an impudent tragedian of the Globe Company. QUARMBY, Vanringham's associate. Miss ALLONBY, an heiress, of a petulant humor, in love with Audaine. MARCHIONESS OF FALMOUTH, an impertinent affected dowager, and grandmother to Miss Allonby. LADY ALLONBY, step-mother to Miss Allonby and Gerald. POSTILIONS, SERVANTS, Etc.

The Duke stood tense for a moment. Then silently he knelt beside the prostrate actor and inspected Vanringham's injury. "You have killed him," the Duke said at last. "I think so," said the boy. "But 'twas in fair fight." The Duke rose. "Benyon," he rapped out, "do you and Minchin take this body to the room below. Let a surgeon be sent for. Bring word if he find any sign of life.

And to-day, when Vanringham set out for Avignon, he was stopped a mile from the Wells by some six of Lord Humphrey's fellows, disguised as highwaymen, and all his papers were stolen. Oho, but Lord Humphrey is a thrifty fellow: so when Ormskirk puts six bandits at his disposal he employs them in double infamy, to steal you as well as Vanringham's despatches.

"O ungenerous! this Vanringham has been bribed!" "I pray you," said the Duke, "give vent to no such scandal. Vanringham's life would not be worth a farthing if he had done such a thing, and he knows it. Nay, I have planned it more neatly. To-night Mr.

Presently, "You told me this afternoon," she began, in a dull voice, "that you anticipated much amusement from your perusal of Mr. Vanringham's correspondence. All his papers were to be seized, you said; and they all were to be brought to you, you said. And so many love-sick misses write to actors, you said."

"So many love-sick misses write to actors. I can assure you, child, I look forward with a deal of interest to my inspection of Mr. Vanringham's correspondence." "Eh? Oh, yes!" Miss Allonby assented "all his papers! Yes, they should be diverting, I must be going home though, to make ready for Lady Mackworth's ball. And if I have nobody to dance with me, I shall know quite well whose fault it is.

But the other men had run hastily up the stairway and were battering at the door of Vanringham's chamber. "Locked!" said the Colonel. "Oh, the unutterable cur! Open, open, I tell you, Vanringham! By God, I'll have your blood for this if you have hurt the boy!" "Break in the door!" said a voice from below.

"Pardon me," he repeated; "you have unsexed yourself; do not add high treason to the list of your misdemeanors. Mr. Vanringham's papers, as I have previously had the honor to inform you, are the state's property." She stood with void and inefficient hands that groped vaguely. "I could trust no one," she said. "I have fenced so often with Gerald.

MISS ALLONBY, an heiress, loves Captain Audaine. LOTTRUM, maid to Miss Allonby. BENYON, MINCHIN, and OTHER SERVANTS to Ormskirk. Tunbridge Wells, shifting from Ormskirk's lodgings at the Mitre to Vanringham's apartments in the Three Gudgeons. PROEM. To Explain Why the Heroine of This Comedy Must Wear Her Best