“Yet by your coming I fear that older, wilder claims may reawake within the heart of the capricious princess.”

“Her heart is steady as the sun,” he said. “She is all nobleness and truth.”

“You doubt that she has wavered toward her cousin?”

“I do not even think of it.”

“So! You think the sex so true. Well, trust your eyes to-night, Sir Junzo!”

CHAPTER XX

AN EVIL OMEN