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The wait for Caretic stride He had been to the earlier maneuvers, and aside from coffee and bacon he had had no breakfast The ride and the cold air of ht Carlish, "but you are Mr Carmichael, the American consul?"

"I am"

"Will you kindly look over my papers?" Grumbach asked

"You are from the United States?" Then Carmichael reht before "I shall be very glad to see you in the Adlergasse at half after ten It is one flight up, next door to the Black Eagle Any one will show you the way I haven't breakfasted yet, and I can not transact any business in these dusty clothes Good "

Grunized instantly that this handsoentleman The inherent respect for caste had not been beaten out of Grumbach's blood; he had coentleood clothes; what the heart and mind were did not matter much

He had h the park, adreen, the well-kept flower-beds, the crisp hedges, and the clean graveled paths There was nothing like it back there in America They hadn't the ti in bubbles He admired the snowy fountains, too, and the doves that darted in and out of the wind-blown spray There was nothing like this in A comparisons He knew that he would be far happier in his adopted country, which would accos farther on

He looked up heavenward, where the three bergs shouldered the dazzling snow into the blue This impressed hi's ice had been there when he was a boy Nothing had changed in Dreiberg save the König Strasse, whose cobbles had been replaced by slances toward the palaces He longed to peer through the great iron fence, but he smothered this desire He would find out what he wanted to knohen he met Carmichael at the consulate Here the bell in the cathedral struck the tenth hour; not a seed in all these years It was good to be here in Dreiberg again Should he ask the way to the Adlergasse? Perhaps this would be wiser So he put the question to a policeave him a detailed route