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The rathskeller had several s and doors These led to the Biergarten, to the wine-cellar, and to an alley which had no opening on the street The police had as yet never arrested anybody; but several ti and his disciples on account of the noise The hich led to the blind alley was six feet froh, and unbarred Under thissat the vintner He was a probationer, a novitiate; this was his second attendance He liked to sit in the shadow and s's philosophy, which, summed up briefly, meant that the rich should divide with the poor and that the poor should hang on to what they had or got It enerally poor because of their incapabilities, their ignorance, and incoht, however, there were variety and spice with his Jere take place? Shall the daughter of Ehrenstein becorand duke's pride we have heard so endheit?"

"No!" roared his auditors, banging their ste his stein as lustily as the next one

"Have you thought what this e will cost us in taxes?"

"What?"

"Thousands of crowns, thousands! Do we not always pay for the luxuries of the rich? Do not their pleasures grind us so rind And shall we subs in Flanders, to become beasts of burden?"

"No, no!"

"I have a plan, brothers; it will show the duke to what desperation he has driven us at last We will ; ill tear it apart, brick by brick, stone by stone"

"Hurrah!" cried the noisy ones They liked talk of this order They kneas only here that great things happened, the division of riches and

The noise subsided Gretchen spoke

"Her serene highness will notround in her direction

"What is that you say?" de

Gretchen repeated her statement It was the first time she had ever raised her voice in the councils

"Oh, indeed!" said Goldberg, boith ridicule: "Since when did her serene highness hness told me so herself" Gretchen's eyes, which had held only ood-will, now sparkled with contempt