lled life
in the attempt to secure him.

"Detachments of mounted gendarmes were immediately sent off in pursuit,
the order being to arrest any foot-traveller whose suspicious appearance
might challenge scrutiny."

It is needless to say how much I appeared to fulfil the signs they
sought for, not to add that the intemperance of my language, when
captured, was in itself sufficient to establish a grave charge against
me. It is true, there was in the act of allegation a lengthened
description of me, with which my own appearance but ill corresponded.
I was described as of middle age, of a strong frame and muscular habit,
and with an expression that denoted energy and fierceness. How much of
that vigor must they imagine had been washed away by the torrent, to
leave me the poor helpless-looking thing I now appeared!

I know it is a very weak confession,--I feel as I make it how damaging
to my character is the acknowledgment, and how seriously I compromise
myself in my reader's estimation; but I cannot help owning that I felt
very proud to be thought so wicked, to be classed with those Brutuses of
modern history, who were scattering explosive shells like bonbons, and
throwing grenades broadcast like "confetti" in a carnival. I fancied how
that miserable Staats Procurator must have trembled in his inmost heart
as he sat there in close proximity with such an infuriate desperado as I
was. I hoped that every look, every gesture, every word of mine, struck
terror into his abject soul. It must also unquestionably do them good,
these besotted, self-satisfied, narrow-minded Germans, to learn how an
Englishman, a born Briton, regards their miserable system of government,
and that poor and meagre phantasm they call their "civilization." Well,
they have had their opportunity now, and I hope they will make much of
it.

As I pondered over the late incident, as recorded in the allegation,
I remembered the name of Rigges as that of the man Harpar mentioned as
having "run" or escaped with their joint finances, and had very little
difficulty in filling up the probable circumstances of their rencontre.
It was easy to see how Rigges, travelling "extra-post," with all the
appearance of wealth and station, could impute to the poor wayfarer
any criminality he pleased. Cunningly enough, too, he had hit upon the
precise imputation which was sure to enlist Austrian sympathies in the
pursuit, and calling him a "Socialist and a Rouge" was almost seal