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 route was settled, and he bid them prepare to set off by the eleventh hour next day, when he and the woman would join them.

"The lady, I suppose," said Ferdinand, "must be silent, otherwise her language will betray her."

"Not so," returned he.—"I told you she had been a Christian; nay, more, she is your countrywoman, a German."

"And you can be contented with one woman?" asked he, smiling.

"I cannot be contented without this woman," replied Heli.—"That's all I can answer for at present."

The friends passed a night of impatience, and not entirely free from apprehension.—Should any discovery of Heli take place, they might, as accomplices, be involved in very disagreeable situations. If they discovered themselves as German officers, entitled to their liberty, he might, in revenge, accuse them of some crimes which would draw on them unpleasant consequences.—And to irritate, displease, or disappoint a