He scarcely glanced at the large, cool dining-room, ornamented with engravings of portraits of the Grand Dukes of Baden and their wives.

Six large windows looked into the valley of the Gutach with its little town of Hornberg, and the mountains lying beyond.

He hardly noticed the rather silent people at the other tables, in which the English element predominated.

He had come in purposely late in the hope of finding Fraulein Ellrich already there.

She was not present; but he was not kept long in suspense before a waiter opened the door, and the lovely girl appeared accompanied by a stately gentleman and a stout lady.