"There is no place for them,
Saberevski," and a shade of sadness which he attributed to the memory
of Stanislaus, clouded her eyes for a moment. Had he but known however,
it was no recollection of that young officer of the czar's household,
to whom reference has already been made and to whom Zara was once
betrothed, that affected her. It was a deeper and more far-reaching
consideration that brought the expression of pain for an instant into
her eyes, and she longed to cry out the truth to her companion, then
and there.

Had she done so, her statement would have been something like this:

"There is no room in my heart for a lover, for the reason that the
cause I have espoused fills it completely. The people whose wrongs I
seek to redress, the victims whose wandering souls cry out for
vengeance, and the women exiles in frozen Siberia whose fates are too
terrible to relate, fill my whole heart and being so completely as to
leave no room for personal love."

She would have said that, and much more, but she restrained herself;
and he rose to take his departure.

She gave him both her hands, and in a low tone that was full of
suppressed feeling, she said to him, at parting:

"Do not think, my friend, that I have failed to appreciate all the
goodness of your motives in coming to me to-day. From my heart I thank
you, and if it should be as you say, that we may never meet again,
although I see no reason for such a thing, I wish you to know that in
parting, Zara de Echeveria admired and esteemed you above all other men
of her acquaintance. Good-bye."

CHAPTER III

TWO SHALL BE BORN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD APART

We need recite but one other interview which Princess Zara undertook
that day. Several follow upon it, and there were many such during her
stay of more than a week in New York City.

Many came, were received and went away again; and the princess herself
was frequently abroad in the streets, or at places of amusement, or was
entertained by those who worship at the shrine of nobility.

But there was one who called upon her the evening of the day of
Saberevski's interview, to which it is necessary that we should refer.
He came at ten o'clock, and was expected, for he was conducted to her
presence immediately and was received without question, although it
would have been immediately plain to an observer that these two had
never met before.

The things which they discussed were largely technical, and had to