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"I'll accept the auish Then he proceeded to take a snap-shot of the castle from the middle of the street He also secured a number of views of thehouses, and two or three interesting exposures of red-robed children Everybody, from the children up, wore loose robes, some red, some black, sogy trousers and blouses a the women All wore low boots and a sort of turban These costumes, of course, were confined to the native civilians At the hotel the garb of the aristocrats was vastly different The woowned after the latest Viennese patterns, and the men, except those of the army, wore clothes alenslocker--or whatever her naowned as any women to be seen on the boulevards or in Hyde Park of an afternoon

It was late in the afternoon when they returned to the hotel After dinner, during which they were again objects of interest, they strolled off towards the castle, s a stranger in a strange land, Lorry acted on the romantic painter's advice and also stuck a revolver in his pocket He laughed at the suggestion tha there ulated town, but Anguish insisted: "I've seen a lot of these fellows around toho look like genuine brigands and cutthroats, and I think it just as well that we be prepared," asserted he, positively, and his friend gratified what he called a whim

At ten o'clock the slender moon dropped behind the mountain, and the valley, which had been touched with its tender light, gradually took on the soht The town sluhts to be seen in the streets or in the houses Here and there strolled the white-uniforuards; occasionally soldiers hurried barracksward; now and then belated citizens h the dense shadows on the sidewalks, but the A from their stroll beside the castle-walls, far to the west of where they had entered the grounds that afternoon, they paused in the ate, and looked down the dark, deserted street, Far away could be seen the faint glare from their hotel; one or two street-lamps burned in the business part of the city; aside fro but darkness, silence, peacefulness about them everywhere