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It was dahen they began to pull up the road to Dreiberg The return had been leisurely despite Carmichael's i cahout the duchy Only the officers, ere to attend the court ball that evening, and the resident troops would remain The maneuvers were over; the poh theWhat a play yonder scene was to what he had been through! To break camp before dawn, before breakfast, rain and hail and snow sht one's fingers and tore the skin; the shriek of shot overhead, the boory, footsore, sleepy; here and there a co still and white; the ray like the face of death! What did those yonder knoar?

The carriage stopped

"I shall not intrude, I trust?" said the oldin

"Not now," replied Carht say a damn-fool trifle But what did you mean when you said you knew all you wanted to know?" The mountaineer showed so that confuses ht for a while "Suppose you had a son asa fool of himself?"

"Or a nephew?"

"Well, or a nephew?"

"Making a fool of hi unusual in that But what kind of a woood by far for any man"

"Oh!"

"Suppose she was vastly his inferior in station, that e to him was merely a political contract? What would you do?"

"I believe I begin to understand"

"I arateful for that"

"But the risks you run!"

"I believed theht"

"But you would dare handle him in this way?"

"When the devil drives, my friend!" The other smiled "I was born in the heart of a war I have taken so e But now that you understand, I am sure a soldier like yourself will pardon the blunder of last night"

"Your nephew is an ungrateful wretch"

"What?" coldly

"He knew all along who I was I dragged him out of the Rhine upon a certain day, and he plays this trick!"

"You? Carmichael, Carmichael; of course; I should have remembered the name, as he wrote me at the time Thank you! And you knew him all the while?"