The two families shall never be connected by marriage while I live.

Understand, my dear son, that this is said in your own best interests, and said, therefore, from the heart of your father who loves you." While I was reading these lines Fritz had opened the letter from Wurzburg.

"It's long enough, at any rate," he said, turning over the closely-written pages to find the signature at the end.
"Well ?" I asked.
"Well," Fritz repeated, "it's an anonymous letter.

The signature is 'Your Unknown Friend.'" "Perhaps it relates to Miss Minna, or to her mother," I suggested.

Fritz turned back to the first page and looked up at me, red with anger.