Chapter 13 THE DISCLOSURE.

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Minari interdum ferro, nisi obnoxia foret.

Sallust.

A woman, master.

Love's Labour Lost.

Among all those of Senatorial rank-and they were very many-who were participants of the intended treason, one alone was absent from the assemblage of the Order on that eventful night.

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