"The devil is in you, Wohlfart," said he at last; "you want to fight a duel with Herr von Fink, a dead shot, while you are only an apprentice, and not half a year in the business: impossible." "I should now be a student if I had not been brought up to be a merchant.

Curses on business, if it so degrades me that I can not even ask satisfaction for insult.

I shall go to Mr.Schroeter at once, and give in my resignation." Jordan's surprise increased.

Here was the good-natured apprentice transformed before his eyes.

At length it was agreed that he should take the message; but Fink was not found at home.