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"Things are not then as you would wish?" she asked

"As I would wish--no, not as I would wish--but as I told you, I do not

mix myself up with them I only obey the Emperor and shall to the end

of my life"

Tamara saw she had stirred too deep waters His face wore a look of

profound melancholy She had never felt so draard him She let

her eyes take in the picture hevery noble

about his brow and the set of his head Who could tell what thoughts

orking in his brain Presently he got up again and knelt by her

side--his ility of a cat He took her

hand and kissed it

"Madame, please don't reat for one o with the Liberals or any of the

revolt Indeed I am far on the other side Good to this country should

all have come in a different, finer way, and now it must work out its

own salvation as best itelse could count" His eyes which looked into hers seereat sombre pools of unrest and pain

She did not take away her hand and he kissed it again

Then the clock on the mantlepiece chimed one, and she started to her