ant young upstart and, of course,
the public, always knowing true talent from shallow pretension, broke up
the seats and pelted the manager with it along with his imposter!"

"Well, good-morning, Karlchen," said the gendarme, taking the
correction in good part, and withdrawing his booted leg from the door.
"I may see you when I am off duty and we will make sure that Freyers
have better taste in brewing beer than in choosing actresses."

Having heard enough to convince him that Daniels was in a house guarded
by the faithful, Claudius proceeded up the stairs dimly visible before
him at the end of a clean, bricked passage. His progress was more easy
when he reached the landing, as the lamp mentioned, in a recess and
projecting its rays in two directions, shone on the door of the suite of
three rooms where the Jew and his daughter were lodged.

Pausing before he knocked, Claudius heard the soft step of slippered
feet. On tapping discreetly, a reserved voice ordered him to come in. It
was Daniels who spoke; he was in a dressing-gown, with bare head, and,
having cleared the chairs back to enable him to make the circuit of the
table in the center of the spacious room, had apparently been walking
round it like a caged lion. On the table were various articles heaped up
without order and an open trunk, partly packed. He looked up in emotion
while Claudius paused on the sill, more affected than he understood the
reason for.

"Ah, heaven be praised! it is you," said the old man with grave joy, and
holding out his hands, paternally. "I feared for the worst--that you
would never come. It is so serious a matter: a nobleman and an officer
who belongs to the Secret Intelligence Department--his death is not to
go unpunished."

"At least, he is not dead," said the student; and he hastened to tell
his story.

"Speak at any tone you please," interrupted Daniels, at the stage of his
having escaped from the music-hall by the artistes' door and of the
help of the woman whom he did not profess to distinguish. "My daughter
is sleeping, and a sitting-room is here between her apartment and this
one."

But, though without any fear that the noble girl would stoop to listen,
the student related the rest with a cautious voice. Others might not be
so delicate.

"You have a great heart," said Daniels, when he heard of the rescue of
the major from the frigid slab of the morgue. "To do this for an enemy
is lofty conduct. God grant that you have