I do not know which he detests the most, the Freemasons, the Free-thinkers, the Protestants, the Jews, or the Germans.

And as this obscure and tortuous Hafner is a little of everything, he has vowed hatred against him!...

Leaving that out of the question, he suspects him of being a secret agent in the service of the Triple Alliance! But let us see the letter." He opened and glanced through it.

"This craftiness serves for something, it is equivalent almost to kindness.

He, too, has felt that it is necessary to end our affair, were it only to avoid scandal.