z Keller smoking his pipe in the wa

city. The late Mr. Wagner's place of business included two spacious houses standing together, with internal means of communication.

nge in his manner. "Something has happened," he said-"I s

ll you what has

dreadful and distressing narratives. I will im

see him, Fritz, in

tell me he is comin

s likely, to say

e disclosures," he said, in his quaint way, "which are too

the wooden table, I observed a bottle of the English beer whic

of this sort," said Fritz. "Fill your glass, David, and let out

d in the preceding pages. Fritz was deeply interested: full of compassion fo

hold the chain? What did she really say, when you left Jack, and had your private talk in the reception-room? One minute, my friend, before you begin," said Fritz, groping under the bench upon which we were seated. "I had a second presentiment that we might want a second bottle-

ch more than I coul

from the Hospital, the powerful influence which had insisted on his being received by the Institution, in defiance of rules, could also insist on his release, and could be approached by the intercession of the same official person, whose interest in the matter had been arouse

" Fritz inquired, after I had repor

e inexcusable, even in a man, to run such a risk-I don't believe there is ano

ave any eff

seen him tempted to break out, and yet capable of restraining himself in my presence. And, more than that, on the one occasion when he did lose his self-control, you saw how he recovered himself when he was calmly and kindly reasoned with. Are you content, David, to leave such a man

dered at t

of my aunt's contemplated experiment suddenly struck him while he spoke. "What will Mrs. Wagner's

u, gentlemen-I shan't mind

aunt herself was standing at the open door

any, just come

he handed him the l

and recognized the handwriting on the address. "From my father!" he said. As he opened the envelope a second letter enclosed