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"You have not spent uest-room, my

friend"

"Sir, you have not marked the door," said his host, reproachfully

"True," said Wogan, with a yawn; "the door is admirably white"

"The frame of the door does not suffer in a comparison" The landlord

raised and lowered his candle that Wogan ht see

"I do not wish to be unjust to the fraan, and

he drew off his boots The landlord bade his guest good-night and

descended the stairs

Wogan, being a cah lost in

reflection He was reflecting nohy in the world he should lately have

become sensible of loneliness; but at the same time he put the Prince's

letter beneath his pillow and a sheathed hunting-knife beside the

letter He had always been lonely, and the fact had never troubled him;

he placed a chair on the left of the bed and his candle on the chair

Besides, he was not really lonely, having a host of friends whoes from his pistol lest they should