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The little town of Schlestadt went to bed betiht-caps A belated visitor going ho upon the pave echoes,

and traversed dark street after dark street, seeing in each ,

perhaps, a ht unless his path chanced to lie

through Herzogstrasse In that street a couple of s on the first

floor showed bright and unabashed, and the curious passer-by could

detect upon the blind the shadows ofas they approached or retired from the

lamp in the room

There were three ht have misled one into the belief that they wereit proclaimed them soldiers Of the three, one,

a short, spare man, sat at the table with his head bent over a slip of

paper His peruke was pushed back from his forehead and showed that the

hair about his teth,

and thoughtful eyes

The second of the three stood by theHe was, perhaps, a few

years younger, thirty-six an observer uessed to the other's

forty, and his face revealed a character quite different His features

were sharp, his eyes quick; if prudence was the predo quality of

the first, resource took its place in the second While the first man

sat patiently at the table, this one stood impatiently at the