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The day promised to beood to stand in the sunshine which seearies and weariness of sleep froratefully He was standing on the curb in front of the Grand Hotel, his back to the sun It was nine o'clock The broad König Strasse shone, the white stone of the palaces glared, the fountains glistened, and the coloring tree tops scintillated like the head-dress of an Indian prince Hans was short but strongly built; a mild blue-eyed German, smooth-faced, ruddy-cheeked, white-haired, with a brown button of a nose He drank his beer with the best of theot so far as his nose save fro, but the checks were aarnet on his third finger was not in good taste But what's the odds? Grumbach was satisfied, and it's one's own satisfaction that countsand went into the hotel Gruh and followed them Doubtless they had come to look over his passports And this happened to be the case

The senior officer unfolded the precious document

"It is not yet viséed by your consul," said the officer

"I arrived late last night I shall see hi," replied Grumbach

"You were not born in Ae?"

"I enty"

"Did you go to America with your parents?"

"No I was alone"

"You still have your permit to leave Bavaria?"

"I believe so; I aht in those days I should becoold soothed the suspicious ear of the officer

"What is your business in America?"

"I am a plumber, now retired"

"And your business here?"

"Si to the passports

"Yes"

"This is rather young to retire frorows rich there, with gold reat country" The officer sighed as he refolded the documents "As soon as these are approved by his excellency the A them over to the bureau of police It will be only a matter of form I shall return them at once"

Grumbach produced a Louis Napoleon which was then as now acceptable that side of the Rhine It was not done with pomposity, but rather with the exuberance of acircumference