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"We erly

"Yes, on one condition--that you ask no questions, and answer none

unless I put them to you Listen, watch, exaether changed It was now authoritative

and alert He turned to Ricardo

"You will swear to what you saw in the garden and to the words you

heard?" he asked "They are important"

"Yes," said Ricardo

But he kept silence about that clear picture in his estive

The Asseton, a crowded audience chiefly of

ladies, a platform at one end on which a black cabinet stood A

, led

forward a girl, pretty and fair-haired, ore a black velvet

dress with a long, sweeping train She moved like one in a dream

Some half-dozen people froirl's hands with tape behind her back, and

sealed the tape She was led to the cabinet, and in full view of

the audience fastened to a bench Then the door of the cabinet was

closed, the people upon the platforhts were turned very low The audience sat in

suspense, and then abruptly in the silence and the darkness there