The latter proved fleet of foot, and most
mysteriously disappeared. He vanished as completely as though he had
been suddenly dissolved into air.
"Well, that gets me," he ejaculated, and after standing for some minutes
looking in every direction, he returned to where the girl lay. He
expected to find her dead, but as our hero approached she rose to her
feet.
"Thank heaven!" ejaculated Oscar, "I thought you had been murdered."
"I believe he intended to murder me and he might just as well have
succeeded--my life is forfeited now."
"Your life is forfeited?"
"Yes."
"Why do you say that?"
"Those men suspect me; you have given my life away."
"I have given your life away?"
"Yes."
"How?"
"By your assault upon Argetti. I did not suspect that were an officer.
They will claim that I knew--that I was in league with you, and led
Argetti into the trap."
"Is that man's name Argetti?"
"No, but that is the name you gave him. We will speak of him as
Argetti."
"You know his real name?"
"I do.
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