lain garments affected by the Jewess in
ordinary days, and they were in the most striking contrast with the
stage flippery in which the officer had previously seen her, her
loveliness was as manifest as the stars when even a fleecy cloud veils
them on an autumnal eve. In her anxiety as regarded her father--or,
perhaps, the student, who can tell?--she must have stooped to listening
to some portion of the singular and one-sided dialogue. For she said,
without any prelude:

"Herr Officer, you have acted a noble part and it would be a grief if I
had not taken the occasion to accept your apology and thank you for the
warning which may save the life of one who--believe me--is no longer
your foe, if he had been one. I am not able to judge the greatness and
loftiness of your act from your people's point of view, but I shall no
longer have a mean opinion of the creed which can perform such a
conversion as yours--that is, making you a true gentleman instead of
leading one to believe you a heartless libertine."

She held out her hand and he took it so reverently, without haste and
with tenderness, and kissed it so respectfully that her last doubt
vanished--although she scarcely had the ghost of one.

He had triumphed completely, and he retired with an airy step and a
heart replete with gratification.

"If he is dragged into the prison and locked up to rot in the dungeon,
they will blame me the last of all," he muttered. "Heavens, how
supernally beautiful she is! There are times when I think that if she
and her rival occupied the scales of the balance, a butterfly's wing
would turn them. My heart would be divided in their mutual favor."

With the same aerial step, he passed two or three men in threadbare
suits and shabby hats, who were hovering about the Persepolitan, and who
carefully exchanged glances of understanding with him. He went straight
to the superintendent-inspector of police, and sat down in his cabinet
to concert with him on the best way to suppress, without scandal, the
dangerous emissary from ever-restless Poland, lodged in consultation
with the Jew, the bugbear of the monarchies of Europe.

"Tut, tut! tell not the official that Daniels and his daughter, for the
paltry lucre of the drink-halls or for artistic satisfaction, made the
tour of the capitals!"

In the meantime, the "suspects," not themselves suspicious, commenced,
with Rebecca a listener, upon the move counseled by the chivalrous
major. It was one