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Grumbach was very fond of music, and in As or at the head of processions; and that wasn't the sort ofat the Opera, so he decided to spend the earlier part of the evening in the public gardens He was lonely; he had always been lonely Men who carry depressing secrets generally are He searched covertly a the many faces for one that was falad, and sorry Yes, there was one face; the rubicund countenance of the bandmaster It was older, more wrinkled, but it was the sa the baton? At least thirty years In his boyhood days Grurand duke's As it was impossible for him ever to becoreatest thing--the bandriroealthy as a master plumber instead! Sobeside a young vintner and his peasant sweetheart Their hands secretly hed Never would he know aught of this double love This Eden would never have any gate for hiirl turned her head Seeing Gruirl," said Gruhed easily and without confusion Her companion, however, flushed under his tan, and a scowl ran over his forehead

The band struck up, and the little co except the girl's face, the fresh, exquisite turn of her profile Once his eye wandered rather guiltily Her figure was in keeping with her face Then he saw the little wooden shoes Ah, well, as long as kings surrounded themselves with armies and with po Les Huguenots, and the girl huht, Gretchen," said the vintner

"It is a crown"

"I will give you two if you will not go," the vintner urged

"Foolish boy, what good would that do? We need every croe have or can get, if we are to be one to work yet And every day costs you a crown to live, and more, for all I know You spend a crown as carelessly as if all you had to do was to pick theet"