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Her lips parted in a dazzling srew softer as they looked into his Von Behrling felt his cheeks burn

"My friend, it is not so easy," she murmured "Tell me," she continued, "why it is that you have so little self-confidence Is it because you are poor?"

"I aed her shoulders

"Well," she said, glancing down the ht, "if you are poor and content to remain so, one must presume that you have compensations"

"But I have none!" he declared "You should know that--you, Made only!"

She looked at hi shook like a reat passion

"We talk too intian to file in to take their places "After luncheon ill take our coffee in my coupe Then, if you like, ill speak of these ne? It is a terrible thing, I know, to drink wine in the , but when one travels, what can one do? Here coh I had stolen you away Reether afterwards I a, and I look to you to amuse me"

Von Behrling's journey was, after all, marked with sharp contrasts The kindness of the woman whom he adored was sufficient in itself to have transported him into a seventh heaven On the other hand, he had trouble with his friends Streuss drew him on one side at Ostend, and talked to hi," he said, "I speak to you on behalf of Kahn and s We te love them, perhaps, as you do, but there is a place and a time for them, and it is not now Ourexclai? What have you to say against me? If I talk with Made for me to do Would you have us three--you and Kahn and myself--travel arers? Would you have us proclai a secret document, to obtain which we have already committed a crime? These are old-fashioned methods, Streuss It is better that we behave like ordinary mortals You talk foolishly, Streuss!"