CHAPTER XIX.
WHOSE END RECONCILES OUR HERO WITH ITS BEGINNING.
Mr.Schnackenberger's howling had (as the waiter predicted) gradually died away, and he was grimly meditating on his own miseries, to which he had now lost all hope of seeing an end before daylight, when the sudden rattling of a key at the yard door awakened flattering hopes in his breast.

It proved to be the waiter, who came to make a gaol delivery--and on letting him out said, 'I am commissioned by the gentlemen to secure your silence;' at the same time putting into his hand a piece of gold.
'The d----l take your gold!' said Mr.Schnackenberger: 'is this the practice at your house--first to abuse your guests, and then have the audacity to offer them money ?' 'Lord, protect us!' said the waiter, now examining his face, 'is it you?
but who would ever have looked for you in such a dress as this?
The gentlemen took you for one of the police.

Lord! to think what a trouble you'll have had!' And it now came out, that a party of foreigners had pitched upon Mr.
Jeremiah's room as a convenient one for playing at hazard and some other forbidden games; and to prevent all disturbance from the police, had posted their servants, who spoke not a word of German, as sentinels at the door.
'But how came you to let my room for such a purpose ?' 'Because we never expected to see you to-night; we had heard that the gentleman in the dreadnought had been taken up at the theatre, and committed.

But the gentlemen are all gone now; and the room's quite at your service.' Mr.Schnackenberger, however, who had lost the first part of the night's sleep from suffering, was destined to lose the second from pleasure: for the waiter now put into his hands the following billet: 'No doubt you must have waited for me to no purpose in the passages of the theatre: but alas! our firmest resolutions we have it not always in our power to execute; and on this occasion, I found it quite impossible consistently with decorum to separate myself from my attendants.

Will you therefore attend the hunt to-morrow morning?
there I hope a better opportunity will offer.' It added to his happiness on this occasion that the princess had manifestly not detected him as the man in the dreadnought..