He would arrange it so that he could at least spend a week with Wilhelm.

It was not impossible that he might bring Bhani with him.
Only a fortnight had passed since Wilhelm received this letter, when, on his return one afternoon from the Uhlenhorst, the hotel porter informed him that a gentleman had arrived from Berlin, and had asked for him; that he was expecting him in his room, the number of which he mentioned.

With joyful foreboding Wilhelm hurried upstairs so fast that Fido could not follow, and knocked at the door.

A familiar voice answered.

"Come in!" and the next moment he was in Schrotter's arms.
The first greetings over, Schrotter gave his young friend a long and penetrating look from under the half-closed lids, and remarked "I suppose you are surprised that I did not wait till April, but dropped down upon you unawares like this ?" "I am too delighted to be surprised," answered Wilhelm, and pressed Schrotter's large, strong hand.
He had scarcely altered at all in the year and a quarter, and with his herculean shoulders and powerful head, his fair hair, blushed into a great tuft above his forehead, only just beginning to turn gray, he was still the very type and picture of ripe manhood and strength.
"But I had a reason for changing my original plan," Schrotter went on.
"Unwittingly I have committed a breach of good manners against you, for which I must personally ask you to forgive me." He drew a letter out of his breast-pocket and handed it to Wilhelm.