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"Are they not always yours? And why should you be sad and miserable?"

"Why, indeed!"

"Leo, as much as I love you, there is always a shadow"

"What shadow?"

"It is always at night that I see you, rarely in the bright daytie What do you do?"

"Will you trust er?"

"Always, not a little longer, always But wait till the music stops and I will tell you of my adventure"

"You have had an adventure?"--distrustfully

"Yes Be still"

There were tones in Gretchen's voice that the young vintner could never quite understand There was a will little less than imperial, and often as he rebelled, he never failed to bow to it

"What was this adventure?" he deeese, the grand duke, and the two crowns He laughed, and she joined hi away their instru the chairs, so the two lovers went out of the gardens toward the town and the Kru

Meanwhile Carreatly disturbed

"Your Excellency, I am sure Colonel von Wallenstein meant no harm"

"Are you truthfully sure?"

The policeman plucked at his beard nervously "It is every man for himself, as your excellency knows Had I spoken to the colonel, he would have had me broken"

"You could have appealed to the duke"

"Perhaps I airl, but I have a family to take care of"

"Well, mark me; this little woman loves music; she comes here often The next time she is annoyed by Wallenstein or any one else, you report it to ladly do that, your Excellency"

Carardens and wandered with aimless step He was surprised to find that he was opposite the side gates to the royal gardens His feet had followed the bent of his mind Yet he did not cross the narrow side street The sound of carriage wheels caused hie he had seen by the fountain drew up before the gates, and the wohted She spoke to the sentinel, who opened the gates and closed them The veiled lady vanished abruptly beyond the shrubbery

"I wonder who that was?" was Car with an affair on hand"