"Why didn't you send me word you
were ill, Briisig?" said Habermann. "I
would gladly have gone to you."

" You can do nothing for me, Karl ; but
I couldn't stay in that confounded hole any
loDger. But what I was going to say is —
I have given it up."

" Given what up ? "

" Getting married. T shall take the pen-
sion from my gracious Herr Count."

" Well, Briisig, I would do that, in your
place."

" Eh, Karl, it is all very well to talk ; but
it is a hard thing for a man of my years to
give up all his* cherished hopes, and go to a



water-cure; for Dr. Strump is determined
to send me there. I don't suppose Dr.
