The Son of Clemenceau

stocratic hauteur, martial to the point of arrogance, and domineering and as blustering toward inferiors as he would have been bland and meek to his superiors. The landlord

he girl returned to say that Herr Daniels would be honored with the visit, although, he had said, he had not a pleasant remembrance of the gentleman. In fact, before his assault in

e had been removed to the inmost chamber vacated by the young singer. The major's accident might account for his meekness, but his ma

st eyes, spacing the apparently unstudied phrases with a cough as if to master tearfulness unbecoming even an invalid soldier. He laid the blame on the surpassing charms of the songstress who had enflamed him beyond his self-control and, partly, on the infernal French wine in which he had imprudently over-indulged at the evening's garrison officer's dinner. Had h

communicating the sentiments that carried him into new directions, so strange was it all, but he was eager to show by deeds that his conversion was

the torrent of glib language momentarily pausing; "bu

sequence. I am not referring to the young lady-whom Munich will be so sorry to part with and whom I do not expect to see again even to accept my excuses-but the student from the Polish University who deservedly corrected me and brought me to my sober senses-although, perhaps, he had a heavy hand." H

-perhaps now-the forces will be a-foot in uniform and in disguise to make a keen and searching inspection of the dwellings suspected of harboring the liberal-minded; and God knows that you have, Herr Daniels, chosen a veritable hot-bed! Two months ago, we arrested a Nihilist with a portmanteau full of glass bombs, luckily uncharged, in the attic upstairs; not three weeks since, two Hungarian malcontents were stopped at the door-but why enter into these details, fitter for the police than a soldier to relate? You, of course, were not told of these blots on this hotel's fame or you would have selec

e speaker was not offended. He smiled wisely, not without good humor, and offered his hand

contrast with the stage flippery in which the officer had previously seen her, her loveliness was as manifest as the stars when even a fleecy cloud veils them on an autumnal eve. In her anxie

one who-believe me-is no longer your foe, if he had been one. I am not able to judge the greatness and loftiness of your act from your people's point of view, but I shall no lon

te and with tenderness, and kissed it so respectfully that her

he retired with an airy step and

ttered. "Heavens, how supernally beautiful she is! There are times when I think that if she and her rival occupie

d glances of understanding with him. He went straight to the superintendent-inspector of police, and sat down in his cabinet to concert with him on the best wa

aughter, for the paltry lucre of the drink-halls or for

rance. Claudius, to be sure, rested under the disadvantage of being a stranger to the roads, as he had traveled only upon one to enter this city-commonly accounted dull, but so far crammed with serious adventures. This blank in his topographical lore was easily filled: the bright-eyed Hedwig was to meet him at the first corner, mount into the vehicle of which the capacious hood of enameled cloth would hide her

ouble the brain, but, all the same, Claudius had a sleepless night, th

r shimmering golden curls. And whatever the sounds in the street, where there seemed more footfalls than before that evening, all though actual, were overpowered and formed the burden to the ghostly but delightful strains from that silvery voice. He was not only at the age to be impressionable, but he had not known one of those college amore

t yet having the coolness to separate them. He was a man to love once only, and there is but one love. There are different phases of it

us wealth in our days is to the monopolist, immense fame to the specialist. To rise above contestants, one must be patient, resigned, long toiling and abhorrent of the social ties which fetter one when

ure-room and the amphitheatre. He had not felt the need, which others confessed, of some one with whom to share griefs, debate enigmas and communicate projects. Since he saw Rebecca, he had, indeed, had an almost momentary glimpse of a home where a dashing woman, moving silently and

the despised and trampled-upon, and she pitied one before whom yawned the dreadful prison which rarely lets out the political prisoner with enough life in his wrecked frame to be worth living out. But he did no

ed him with, when, after the restless night, he rose with the dawn, and he determined to use them if assailed. It is the inoffensive, quiet man who works most mischief when roused-nothing

for the safety of the first real friend she had so far met among the Gentiles. The host looked in at the conclusion of the meal. Nothing could wear a fairer aspect. Even the hovering