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"Did you see that young vintner?"

"Yes"

"Follow hiht and day Find out where he lives and what he does; and ransack his room if possible He is either an innocent ht"

"And the girl?"

"Don't trouble about her She is under the patronage of her serene highness She's as right as a die It's the h concern An ordinary vintner would have been frightened This fellow s suspicious?"

"Arrest hi him here at once"

Alone once hness He was finally convinced, by the regularity of the line on the printed side as co side, that the vintner had lied And yet there was no proof that he had

"This young felloill go far," hethe street Gretchen gave rein to her laughter What prohed, too, but Moht was not done yet; there were still some more surprises in store for the vintner As they turned into the Kru they al in this part of the town, so near nized them both He lifted his hat, but the vintner cavalierly refused to respond

"Herr Car here this tiht?"

"I have been on a fool's errand," urbanely

"And who sent you?"

"The god of fools hihost, a specter in black that leaves the palace early in the evening and returns late, whose destination has invariably been forty Kru"

The vintner started

"My house?" cried Gretchen

"Yours? Perhaps you can dispel this phantom?" said Car Who is she?"

"A lady who comes on a charitable errand But now she will coone," Gretchen answered sadly

"My luck!" exclai houses of cards I don't suppose I shall ever reform"

"Are you not afraid to walk about in this part of the town so late?" put in the vintner, as ione

"Afraid? Of what? Thieves? Bah, my little man, I carry a sword-stick, and ht" And he swung along easily, whistling an air from The Barber of Seville