The Devil: A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience

vived him and he turned back to the studio with a clear

sing," the old man said, in an awe-struck whisper

t-chamber and proceeded to change to the evening clothes which had been sent to him there from the tailor's. Unwilling to meet the man again, Karl

s house, in advance of the ball, to beg her not to proceed with her design of bringing him and Elsa together; to tell her that he loved her and that in all the world there lived no other woman for him. Desperately, at last, he remembered his promise to see Mimi, and he hurried out and mad

garding business affairs in Russia, in which he was heavily interested. Olga was torn by conflicting emotions. The man had roused in her the dormant love for Karl which she believed buried forever. She could not deny to her

d feel now the crumbling away of all her principles. She had believed for six years that she had given to Herman every bit of

roused. She would make the artist love the beautiful, accomplished girl whom she herself had selected for his bride. She w

friend of Karl's," Herman said after

y disagreeable,

seemed very agreeable. Where does he come from? He s

"I cannot tell you anything about him.

t," Herman said. "He is going to give me inf

icked insinuations and of her terrible dread, but she checked herself. Herman seemed fatuously delighted by Milla