Year: 1870

The coachman answered not.


"And, one thing more. Dear Abra-
ham, will the horses hold out six German
miles, without resting? Are you sure
the carriage will not break DOWN."


"Begone, fearful fool, and leave car
riage and horses to my care!'


The little man looked at his watch.


Exactly five. 1t is just the time
Once more, dear Abraham. keep sharp
lookout, I entreat you"


At sort Of sneaking run, the timid
Jew hurried to door in the park wall,
close to which the road passed. He
glanced keenly around him. No one was
in sight. and, producing key, be hastily
unlocked the door. opening it only just
wide enough to allow him to slip through.
In an instant he was in the park, and the
door shut behind him.


Completely unseen as the Jew believed
himself, there was yet one at hand whose
watchful eye had followed all his move
ments. At the exact moment that the
coachman turned his carriage, and at a
short distance from the spot, a man e.
merged from the thicket. His appear
ance was very striking. Far above the
usual stature, in person be was extraordi-
nary spare. Large bones, broad should
ers, muscular arm. and hand like a
bunch of sinews, indicated that his mea-
gre frame possessed great strength. His
strange figure was accoutred in remark
able costume. He wore a short brown
jacket of the color and coarse material Of
the cowls of the mendicant friars, short
brown leather breeches, gray linen gait
ers and wide strong shoes. His head was
covered with an old misshapen gray hat,
whose broad brim was no longer in state
to testify whether it had once been round
or three-cornered. Across his back was
slung bag. from whose mouth protruded
the neck of an old black fiddle. The
mans age was hard to guess. His thick
strong hair was of that sort Of mouse. color
which even, very old age rarely alters
His countenauce was frightfully furrowed;
but if its burrows were deep, on the other
hand its outlines were of iron rigidity.-
The eye was very quick. In short, how
ever narrow the scrutiny, it still remain
ed doubtful to the observer whether the
man was fifty, sixty or seventy years old.


This person, stepping out Of the forest,
was on the point of springing across the
road, when he perceived the carriage and
the two Jews. Satisfying himself, by a
has'y glance, that he was still unseen, he
drew back within cover of the thicket.-
Concealed behind thick screen of foliage,
he watched with profound attention every
movement of the men, who were too dis
tant for him to overhear their words
When one Of them had entered the park
the long brown man made circuit through
the wood. and again emerged from it at a
point where he could not be seen by the
coachman. but which yet was not far dis
tant from the door through which the Jew
had passed. After brief reflection, he ap-
preached this door aud tried to open it.
1t was locked. He turned back, skirting
the wall-but so noiselcssly that the sharp
est ear, close upon the other side, could
hardly have detected his presence. He
paused at place where trees and thick
bushes, growing within the park, over
topped the wall. A long branch protrud-
ed across, and hung down so low that the
tall stranger could easily reach it. He
closely examined this branch, its length
and strength, then the wall-measuriug
its height with his eye, and noting its
irregularities of surface. Suddenly he
seized the branch with both hands, set his
feet against the wall, and swung his whole
body upwards. Before spectator could
have copjectured bis intention, be was
seated on limb of the tree within the
park it was as if an enormous brown cat
had sprung up amongst the branches. In
another second he was on the ground, the
slightest possible cracking of the twigs a.
lone betraying his rapid descent.


He stood in the midst of a thick growth
of bushes. the stiffness around him broken
only by the voices of birds. Cautiously
be made his way through the tangled
growth of branches into small winding
path, which he followed in the direction
of the door. On reaching this he found
himself in broad carriage road, appar-
emily commencing and terminating at the
palace, after numerous windings through
the park. Opposite the door was an open
lawn; to the right were long alleys. thro
whose vista the rays Of the early morning