[Red Axe by Samuel Rutherford Crockett]@TWC D-Link bookRed Axe CHAPTER XLII 6/21
Who knows that look, if not I? And so we passed within.
But my Helene was quivering and much afraid, nestling to me--aye, to me, old Gottfried Gottfried, like a frightened dove. "After this she went not out into the court-yard or city any more, save with me by her side, and Otho von Reuss lingered about, watching like a wolf about the sheepfold.
For, as I say, he was in high favor with Duke Casimir, and had already equal place with him on the bed of justice. "Then there came a night, lightning peeping and blazing, alternate blue and ghastly white--God's face and the devil's time about staring in at the lattice.
I lay alone in my chamber.
But I was not asleep.
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