e, and
there was a brooding peace between them.

But there were gloomy projects in his busy brain as Braun watched
the Baltic sand dunes fade away behind him. "She is deceived by my
manufactured telegram from Clayton. She will wait for his coming."

He laughed over the cunning which had bade her write or cable no
more. And, with a wildly loving heart now panting in her reassured
bosom, Irma Gluyas fell into a belief in Braun's story of their
flight from the revenue officials. "Thank Heaven, he is safe! He
loves me beyond all," mused the dreaming woman.

"He will get the letter left for him with the faithful girl, and
follow me on. Once that I am out of this man's clutches, Braun will
never dare to follow or claim me. For, he fears the Vienna police
as much as I."

Brave in her love, happy in her lover's safety, Irma Gluyas only
lived to meet once more the man who had awakened her nobler nature.
To be his slave, to drift down the years with him, was all she
asked; only to see his face again! She was held in Love's bondage
now!

And, wrapped in her dreams of the future, she forgot the man at her
side, who now compassed her death. "I must make my treasure safe
first," he craftily planned, "and then lose this hawk-eyed devil.
But only when my future is secure beyond all reach!"

With all his bridges burned behind him, Fritz Braun easily threaded
the network of railways of the Eastern German frontier.

For years he had studied over the hiding place upon the triangular
frontier of Poland, Germany, and Austria; and now, he only longed
for a freedom from Irma Gluyas' haunting eyes.

"Leah can join me later; but even she must not know of this fool's
fate!"

Safe in his own conceit, Fritz Braun drew happy breaths of relief
when he was safely hidden in the little village of Schebitz, under
the frowning crags of the Silesian Katzen Gebirge.

"Here we can rest in safety till the storm blows over," he said,
as Irma Gluyas followed him into the arched entrance of an old
half-forgotten manor house. "You shall have your books and music;
we can take a run whenever we like, and you shall have nothing to
fear, for my American friends will take care of me."

And then began the double duel of wits, in which, all innocent of
suspicion of danger, the woman whose soul was struggling toward
the light again, hid the darling secret of her heart--the coming
of the man who was to free her from the tyranny of her past sins!
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