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This new knowledge added distinctly to my sense of security . Later in the day I tried to find the Vladika or any mountaineer of importance , for I thought that such a hiding-place which had been used so recently might be dangerous , and especially at a time when , as I had learned at the meeting where they did _ not _ fire their guns that there may have been spies about or a traitor in the land . Even before I came to my own room to-night I had fully made up my mind to go out early in the morning and find some proper person to whom to impart the information , so that a watch might be kept on the place . It is now getting on for midnight , and when I have had my usual last look at the garden I shall turn in . Aunt Janet was uneasy all day , and especially so this evening . I think it must have been my absence at the usual breakfast-hour which got on her nerves ; and that unsatisfied mental or psychical irritation increased as the day wore on . RUPERT 'S JOURNAL -- _ Continued _ .