Life at Baden-Baden proved a very sociable affair, and Bernard Longueville perceived that he should not lack opportunity for the exercise of those gifts of intelligence to which Gordon Wright had appealed.

The two friends took long walks through the woods and over the mountains, and they mingled with human life in the crowded precincts of the Conversation-house.

They engaged in a ramble on the morning after Bernard's arrival, and wandered far away, over hill and dale.

The Baden forests are superb, and the composition of the landscape is most effective.

There is always a bosky dell in the foreground, and a purple crag embellished with a ruined tower at a proper angle.