"Say you won't--never--so help you!" "Never--I swear it.

Now go on!" * * * * * An hour later, Sybilla Silver, in her impenetrable disguise, re-entered Kingsland Court.

No one had seen her go--no one saw her return.

She gained her own room and took off her disguise unobserved.
Once only on her way to it she had paused--before my lady's door--and the dark, beautiful face, wreathed with a deadly smile of hate and exultation, was horribly transformed to the face of a malignant, merciless demon..