But I was calm; so I said softly, and without acrimony: "'Which fox ?' "It seemed to anger him.

I don't know why; and he thundered out: "'WHICH fox?
Why, THE fox?
Which way did the FOX go ?' "I said, with great gentleness--even argumentatively: "'If you could be a little more definite--a little less vague--because I am a stranger, and there are many foxes, as you will know even better than I, and unless I know which one it is that you desire to identify, and----' "'You're certainly the damdest idiot that has escaped in a thousand years!' and he snatched his great horse around as easily as I would snatch a cat, and was away like a hurricane.

A very excitable man.
"I went back to Mrs.Blank, and she was excited, too--oh, all alive.

She said: "'He spoke to you!--didn't he ?' "'Yes, it is what happened.' "'I knew it! I couldn't hear what he said, but I knew be spoke to you! Do you know who it was?
It was Lord C., and he is Master of the Buckhounds! Tell me--what do you think of him ?' "'Him?
Well, for sizing-up a stranger, he's got the most sudden and accurate judgment of any man I ever saw.' "It pleased her.

I thought it would." G.got away from Nauheim just in time to escape being shut in by the quarantine-bars on the frontiers; and so did we, for we left the next day.