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104  Tell them what passed, Otto.

 It was in the Park. I had been waiting to see if she would come out for her usual walk. At last she came. She pretended not to see me, so I stepped up to her. "Leave me," she said. "I can't speak to you."  Ah!  I thought she was afraid of being seen from the windows of the house, so I fell back a step or two and spoke to her from behind.  What did you say?  "The Council of the Club are to meet to-night," I said. "They want you to be present." "I can't listen to you," she answered. "It's urgent—imperative. You must come," I said, and still she tried to get away.  So?  But when I said the Club was to meet as a Court to try the Minister, and it would be life or death to him, she consented. "At what time?" she asked. "Nine o'clock," I told her. "I'll be there," she said.