isten! They are
calling: 'Bruennhilde--Bruennhilde!' Is that for me?"

"For you."

"Why should I look, Velasco--why should I listen? My heart is
breaking. I cannot bear it--Velasco!"

"Lean on my shoulder; look again, Kaya, put your eyes to the hole. Do
you see a loggia above to the left, full of people standing, and in
front some one tall and in uniform?"

"No, Velasco--I see nothing!"

"It is the tears in your eyes, Kaya! Brush them away and look once
again. Don't you see him--in uniform, tall with a beaked nose, a grey
mustache and his eyes crossed?"

"His eyes crossed--Velasco! Are you mad? He is dead! I tell you,
Velasco, he is--dead! The Grand-Duke Stepan!--I killed him!"

"He is not dead."

"The Grand-Duke Ste--"

"He is not dead. He lives and he stands there before you--clapping and
shouting your name."

She gazed up at him with trembling lips: "There is no curse,
Velasco--he lives? There is--no curse--no stain on my hands? Am I
mad? No curse of the Cross--the Black Cross?"

"Kaya--my beloved!"

She fell back slowly against his breast and his arms closed around her.

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