But the latter saw the look and glanced suspiciously at the questioner.
"No news, that I know of," he answered.

"Except for me," he added, after a pause, and looking dreamily out of the window at a street lamp that was burning opposite.

"To-morrow, at this time, I shall be off." "And where are you going ?" asked the Cossack, good-humouredly.

"Are you going for long, if I may ask ?" "Yes--yes.

I shall never come back to Munich." He had been speaking in German, but noticing that the other guests in the room were silent, and thinking that they might listen, he broke off into Russian.