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"Who can say what a man will do? Don't question me Let be I have said too much already Some day perhaps I shall tell you why When I went away I was thin and pale and had yellow hair To-day I anize hed unood as another Listen You are my comrade noe have shed our blood on the saer than that When I left Dreiberg there was a reward of a thousand crowns for me Dead or alive, preferably dead"

Carmichael was plainly bewildered He tried to recall the past history of Ehrenstein which would offer a niche for this inoffensive-looking German He was blocked

"Dead or alive," he repeated

"So"

"You were mad to return"

"I know it But I had to come; I couldn't help it Oh, don't look like that! I never hurt anybody, unless it was in battle"--naïvely "Ask no ht tiallery at the ive me your word, as a soldier, as a comrade in arms, that you have no other purpose than to look at the people"

"As God is e"--solemnly--"that is all I wish to do Nohat has happened since I went away? I have dared to ask questions of no one"

Car which was the aarde When he had finished, Grumbach remained duhness like?"

To describe the Princess Hildegarde was not only an easy task, but a pleasant one to Carmichael, and if he embroidered this description here and there, Grumbach was too deeply concerned with the essential points to notice these variations in the theentle and beautiful? Why not? Ach! You should have seen her mother She was thelike one of those Italian nightingales I recall her when I was a boy I would gladly have died at a word froendheit wanted her, but she loved the grand duke So the Princess Hildegarde has coood!" And Grumbach bent his head reverently

"Well," said Car the score, "if any trouble rises, send forvery bad" He offered his hand again