This last argument gained for him the general sympathy.

Reckoning no doubt upon this incident, to secure the winning of a cause that he now regarded as his own, the host said to the hostler: "There is only one way to make a finish.

It is to call up the burgomaster, and beg him to step here.

He will decide who is right or wrong." "I was just going to propose it to you," said the soldier, "for, after all, I cannot take the law into my own hands." "Fritz, run to the burgomaster's!"-- and the hustler started in all haste.

His master, fearing to be compromised by the examination of the soldier, whose papers he had neglected to ask for on his arrival, said to him: "The burgomaster will be in a very bad humor, to be disturbed so late.