The last one, an honest master weaver, had moved with a very crooked gait.

As he saw the moon double--like everything else around and above him--he had wondered whether the man up there had a wife.

He expected no very pleasant reception from his own at home.

The watchman, who--the moon did not exactly know why--lingered a short time in front of the Ortlieb mansion, followed the burgher.

Then came a priest who, with the sacristan and several lantern bearers, was carrying the sacrament to a dying man in St.Clarengasse.
There was usually more to be seen at this hour on the other side of the city--the northwestern quarter--where the fortress rose on its hill, dominating the Thiergartenthor at its foot; for the Emperor Rudolph occupied the castle, and his brother-in-law, Burgrave Friedrich von Zollern, his own residence.