Fifteen thousand, all brigaded, and each man with a medal round his neck to rally by.

That's all Gondremark.' 'Ay, sir, you see what it leads to; wild talk to-day, and wilder doings to-morrow,' said the old man.

'For there is one thing certain: that this Gondremark has one foot in the Court backstairs, and the other in the Masons' lodges.

He gives himself out, sir, for what nowadays they call a patriot: a man from East Prussia!' 'Give himself out!' cried Fritz.

'He is! He is to lay by his title as soon as the Republic is declared; I heard it in a speech.' 'Lay by Baron to take up President ?' returned Killian.