CHAPTER VII.
Fritz kept the letter from Wurzburg unopened in his hand.
"It's not from Minna," he said; "the handwriting is strange to me.
Perhaps my father knows something about it." He turned to his father's letter; read it; and handed it to me without a word of remark.
Mr.Keller wrote briefly as follows:-- "The enclosed letter has reached me by post, as you perceive, with written instructions to forward it to my son.

The laws of honor guide me just as absolutely in my relations with my son as in my relations with any other gentleman.

I forward the letter to you exactly as I have received it.

But I cannot avoid noticing the postmark of the city in which the Widow Fontaine and her daughter are still living.

If either Minna or her mother be the person who writes to you, I must say plainly that I forbid your entering into any correspondence with them.