TWO TALES, OF WHICH ONLY ONE IS TRUE After a couple of days the whole hunting party returned from the mountains.

This was much sooner than they had determined, and the cause was a very serious accident which had befallen Baron Hatszegi.

They brought him home in an ambulance car to Henrietta's great consternation.
The baroness, sitting by the bedside, heard from the doctor that her husband's wounds were serious, but that his life was not in danger, and that he might even be allowed to smoke a cigar if he liked.

Then Mr.
Gerzson related how it had happened: "Only imagine, your ladyship! This irrepressible friend of ours, not content with pursuing game all day through the thickets, learns, late in the evening, that a gigantic old bear was trotting towards the ice valley, and, without saying a word to anybody, must needs leave the company and set off alone, late at night, on the track, with only a double-barrelled musket and not so much as a dog to keep him company.

The bear enticed Leonard further and further.
At last down he squats before him in the bright moonlight and begins licking his paws; then suddenly quits the path and disappears.