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servant" explained Nada. "The whole en- bassy staff went back to Gailima the fol- lowing day. People hereabouts were very angry with them. Crowds collected outside the hotel, and had not the news of your Higness' safety been brought, Rastitch thinks there would have been trouble"
 My escape seems miraculous" said the girl, dreamily. q can't make it out at all. Pm glad the embassy has gone"
 And that his Highness is still here,' supplemented Nada with satisfaction. "He sends every day to inquire, and is coming to visit you as soon as you are we'll enough to receive him.
 "H'mw said Evadne, twisting her mouth little. In truth, her feelings were mixed. It was no thanks to Theobald that she sur vived, and she had no clue as to what he was thinking of his own conduct.
 However, if he were apologetic enough she did not suppose that she would be i'm placable, for her spirits were rising every moment The beloved old baroness was safe, the embassy had removed itself from her seclusion, and she had conclusively proved the intentions of the Polish spy not to be malignant Had there been any truth in her wild surmise that he wished to kill her he could have done SO, without the fainest risk of detection, as she lay on the beach at his mercy
 Had her dead body been found, nobody would have felt any surprise. Her heing alive was the wonder. Lying in her com fortable room in the sunshine, Nada sit ting by, busy with her needlework, Evadre decided that she had allowed her imagina- tion to run away with her. Her suspicious, aroused by the delivery of the mysterious message, had evidently worked in quite wrong direction. Pondering over the ab- ject attitude of the presumed spy, she won- dered that she could ever have thought him formidable.
 Her mind was not yet alert enough to face clearly the mystery of her own safety nor the full absurdity of the supposition that the current had washed her asbore. She was filled with a vast content because Bar Bar was not only alive, but for the past two days pronounced out of danger by the doc tors, though her convalescence must be slow and tedious after the shock sine had received.
 Thus Prince Ra, who was that afternoon admitted to see his aunt for the first time since the~aecident, found her in excellent spirits.
 "Hallo, what shockv' he observed, sit ting down and contemplating her earnestly. "When a man walks in and sees his best girl with half her face white, and the other half looking like copper that hasn't been polished for month, he feels bit rattled, you knowv'
 "Oh, you priceless idiotv' cried Evadne, with fervor. "Come, let me hug you just for once, to make sure you are real, and not at the bottom of the Kerneru Sec"
 Trust old Varley to see to that! If were there, he'd be lying at my side, still grasping in his hand of ice body with the strange device-"
 "Ra, how splendid he seems to have beenr'
 Trey have been telling you about it? Yes, he's the right stuff. You may take it from me, he was the only man in the whole party-except, l suppose, that Pole-who hadn't drunk more than was god for him. Pm not saying they were all drunk; but even Theobald had had more than was ad- visable; and Won Jo't, poo devil, was frankly tipsy. Varley keeps blaming kim self for not insisting upon conveying you home. Bnt when one is out with an ambas- sador, and one is only tutor, one doesn't want to put it across people more than one is obliged. They would only have been rude to him if he had said anything"
 "Of course He acted finely throughout, and no particle of blame attaches to him. yIo4x