ience as easily as you purchased me!
My soul is free though, and it hovers over you as the spirit of
revenge.--Beware!"

She slowly turned and quitted the room. Her diamonds sparkled and blazed
in the myriads of lights. The large mirrors reflected the image of a
haughty woman, who swept proudly past like a goddess of revenge!

Ebenstreit stood gazing after her. He had a horror of the lonely still
room, so gorgeous and brilliantly illuminated--a shudder crept over him,
and he sank, weeping bitterly.

In the little room, the buried happiness of the past, Marie knelt, with
outstretched arms, imploring heaven for mercy. "I thank Thee, Heavenly
Father, that I have been permitted to see him again! My sacrifice was
not in vain--he lives! He is free, and his mind is clear and bright. I
thank Thee that he still loves me. His anger is but love!"

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE KING AND THE ROSICRUCIANS.

The joy which Bischofswerder said, reigned in heaven and upon earth over
the return of the crown prince to the path of virtue, in having forsaken
Wilhelmine Enke, was of but short duration.

The Invisibles and the pious Rosicrucians soon learned that sagacious
and cunning woman defied the spirits and abjured the oaths.

Since the night of his communion with the departed, Frederick William
had never visited Charlottenburg--never seen the house which contained
all that he held most dear; he had returned Wilhelmine's letters
unopened, and had even had the courage to refuse himself to the
children, who came to see him.

If he had been left to consult his own heart, he would not probably have
had sufficient resolution to have done this; Bischofswerder and Woellner
never left him for a moment, as they said the Invisible Fathers had
commanded them to tarry with the much-loved brother in these first days
of trial and temptation, and to elevate and gladden him with edifying
conversations and scientific investigations.

The prayers and exhortations were the duty of Woellner, who, besides
this, continued his daily discourses upon the administration of
government, preparing the prince for the important command of the royal
regiments, which they hoped favorable destiny would soon grant him.

The scientific researches were the part of Bischofswerder, and he
entered upon his duties with the zeal and pleasure of an inquiring mind,
itself hopeful and believing.

In the cabinet arranged in the new palace at Potsdam, the prince and his
dea