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By and by he lighted a candle The room held a cot, a table, and two chairs The vintner's wardrobe consisted of a small pack thrown carelessly into a corner Out of the drawer in the table he took several papers and burned the about police h with hiht his eye He fetched it to the candle What he read forced the color from his cheeks and his hands were touched with transient palsy

"The devil! What shall I do now?" he hly dismayed

What indeed should he do? Which way should he ? Ah, that would be rich! What a joke! It would afford hie Carmichael, Carmichael! The vintner chuckled softly as he scribbled this note: "If Herr Car, let hiht o'clock to-night"

"So there is a trap, and I am to beware of a mountaineer, a carter, a butcher, and a baker? Thanks, Scharfenstein,over me"

He blew out his candle and went to bed