"
"This is treachery."
Oscar smiled and said:
"Do not use so harsh a term."
"It is indeed treachery; you were to meet me to-morrow night."
"Yes, and I will. I did not _meet_ you this time, I followed you."
"You now have sealed my doom. They will follow me to the end of the
world. They will know beyond all question that I am a traitress, or they
will assume so."
"I repeat, you need not fear these men."
"I do not see how you succeeded in following me. I thought it possible
and I watched; you were very clever."
"Cleverness comes in the way of business with me."
"What did you do with Argetti?"
"He will be in jail ere sunrise."
"Then ere sunrise I must be as far from New York as I can get."
"You will not get far."
"I will not get far?"
"No."
"What do you mean?" demanded the girl, her face assuming a ghastly hue.
"You are not the master of your own movements."
The look that overspread the beautiful girl's face was pitiful to
behold, and she exclaimed in a tone of heartbreaking sadness:
"Then you have betrayed me.
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