ill take one." And when she gave
it to him he folded it reverently and put it away.

"I understand!" she cried. "You are just going to keep it; you don't
intend to spend it at all. Don't be foolish!"

"I shall notify my friend, when we reach Doppelkinn, that I am without
funds, and he will telegraph to Dresden."

"Your friends were very wise in sending you away as they did. Aren't
you always getting into trouble?"

"Yes. But I doubt the wisdom of my friends in sending me away as they
did,"--with a frank glance into her eyes. How beautiful they were, now
that the sparkle of mischief had left them!

She looked away. If only Doppelkinn were young like this! She sighed.

"Can they force one to marry in this country?" he asked abruptly.

"When one is in my circumstances."

He wanted to ask what those circumstances were, but what he said was:
"Is there anything I can do to help you?"

"You are even more helpless than I am,"--softly. "If you are caught
you will be imprisoned. I shall only suffer a temporary loss of
liberty; my room will be my dungeon-keep." How big and handsome and
strong he looked! What a terrible thing it was to be born in purple!
"Tell me about yourself."

His hand strayed absently toward his upper vest-pocket, and then fell
to his side. He licked his lips.

"Smoke!" she commanded intuitively. "I said that you might."

"I can talk better when I smoke," he advanced rather lamely. "May I,
then?"--gratefully.

"I command it!"

Wasn't it fine to be ordered about in this fashion? If only the train
might go on and on and on, thousands of miles! He applied a match to
the end of his cigar and leaned back against the cushion.

"Where shall I begin?"

"At the beginning. I'm not one of those novel readers who open a book
at random. I do not appreciate effects till I have found out the
causes. I want to know everything about you, for you interest me."

He began. He told her that he was a German by birth and blood. He had
been born either in Germany or in Austria, he did not know which. He
had been found in Tyrol, in a railway station. A guard had first
picked him up, then a kind-hearted man named Scharfenstein had taken
him in charge, advertised for his parents and, hearing nothing, had
taken him to America with him.

"If they catch you," she interrupted, "do not under any consideration
let them know that you were not born in the United States. Your friend
the American co