tels to the effect that the police have strict
orders to take into custody anybody found trespassing upon or damaging
the premises.

We found one restaurant which looked a little less like a morgue than did
the other restaurants in the town, and rang the bell. After we had
waited for about a quarter of an hour, an old woman answered the door,
and asked us what we wanted. We said a steak and chipped potatoes for
two, and a couple of lagers. She said would we call again in about a
fortnight's time, when the family would be at home? She did not herself
know where the things were kept.

We went down on to the sands this morning. We had not been walking up
and down for more than half an hour before we came across the distinct
imprint of a human foot. Someone must have been there this very day! We
were a good deal alarmed. We could not imagine how he came there. The
weather is too fine for shipwrecks, and it was not a part of the coast
where any passing trader would be likely to land. Besides, if anyone has
landed, where is he? We have been able to find no trace of him whatever.
To this hour, we have never discovered who our strange visitant was.

It is a very mysterious affair, and I am glad we are going away.

We have been travelling about a good deal since we left Munich. We went
first to Heidelberg. We arrived early in the morning at Heidelberg,
after an all-night journey, and the first thing that the proprietor of
the Royal suggested, on seeing us, was that we should have a bath. We
consented to the operation, and were each shown into a little marble
bath-room, in which I felt like a bit out of a picture by Alma Tadema.

The bath was very refreshing; but I should have enjoyed the whole thing
much better if they had provided me with something more suitable to wipe
upon than a thin linen sheet. The Germans hold very curious notions as
to the needs and requirements of a wet man. I wish they would
occasionally wash and bath themselves, and then they would, perhaps,
obtain more practical ideas upon the subject. I have wiped upon a sheet
in cases of emergency, and so I have upon a pair of socks; but there is
no doubt that the proper thing is a towel. To dry oneself upon a sheet
needs special training and unusual agility. A Nautch Girl or a Dancing
Dervish would, no doubt, get through the performance with credit. They
would twirl the sheet gracefully round their head, draw it lightly across
their back, t