MAXINE GIVES BACK THE DIAMONDS I tried to answer the question, to decide something; but my brain felt dead.

"I can't think now.

I must trust to luck--trust to luck," I said to myself, desperately, as Marianne dressed me.

"By and by I'll think it all out." But after that my part gave me no more time to think.

I was not Maxine de Renzie, but Princess Helene of Hungaria, whose tragic fate was even more sure and swift than miserable Maxine's.