Wilhelm decided to go first to Hamburg, where Paul lived during the winter, wait there till the spring, and then arrange further plans.

He visited the grave of his father and mother, gave Stubbe orders as to the management of the house, took leave of a few friends, visited one or two poor people whom he was in the habit of looking after, and then had nothing further to keep him in Berlin.

The rest of the day he passed with Schrotter, who found the parting very hard to bear.

Bhani, whom they had acquainted with the matter, had tears in her beautiful dark eyes--the last remnant of youth in the withered face.

And as he left the dear familiar house in the Mittelstrasse she begged him--translating the Indian words plainly enough by looks and gestures--to accept an amulet of cold green jade as a remembrance of her.
That night at eleven o'clock a slow train bore Wilhelm away from Berlin.
At the station he caught sight of the face of his old friend Patke, whom he had come across more than once during that day.