ecause
their way of dressing the hair and the cut of their clothes was not
pleasing to Calvin, is easily understood, but he also imprisoned the
dressmaker, who made the clothes, and the friends who helped to dress
them. It will be a nice time for Heidelberg, when the consumptive
butter-colored faces, which Ursinus and Zanchi have called together,
stick their noses in every pot. I remember right well, how in Geneva
they ordered me to repeat the Catechism like a school-boy, looked over
my books, sent elderly gentlemen and worthy women to the head of the
hospital to learn to pray, and made us attend for a whole year the
Sunday-school, so that we might obtain proper notions on the matter of
praedestination."

A pause testified to the impression produced by the remarks of the
experienced Parson. "Even Sunday-walks," continued he, "picnics,
bowling, singing and dancing must the inhabitants of the Palatinate
banish from their minds, for those lead to Church excommunication, and
excommunication means imprisonment and banishment."

"The foreign gentlemen need not banish me," said Neuser angrily, "for I
am about to leave of my own accord."

"Where will you go then?" rejoined Xylander. "To the Hugenots, there
will you have to rise even earlier, as they have early service before
sun-rise. To the Saxons? Think of their wretched beer, and the doctrine
of Ubiquity. To the Hanseatic towns? With Hesshufen and Westphal you
jump from the frying pan into the fire. Easier is it to throw thirteen
spots with a pair of dice than find a Church, which respects your
freedom. It is of no avail, brother, you must submit."

"I know of a place, and the Inspector and my friend Suter know it also.
We shall soon have followers, if the foreigners have it here their own
way. We quit."

"Klaus will also be of your company?" laughed Xylander.

"Klaus will become a Turk," put in the waiter, "there a man has but one
God and three wives. That is better than the reverse way."

"Peace, blasphemer," said Probus.

"It is only a matter of essay, which is better, to be a Turk or a
Palatine under Olevianus and Frederic the Pious," murmured Neuser.

"Our stout Neuser is a man capable of bartering three Heavenly Fathers
and twelve Apostles for a cask of Deidesheimer," said Xylander
mockingly, "but only remember that in Turkey wine is not allowed, the
Prophet had a weak stomach."

The Chancellor arose, the conversation was becoming too frivolous, and
he had