"However, I must say good- bye now, Herr Lieutenant I have told our man Hans, whom the baroness leaves behind, to see that you want for nothing until you shall be able to attend to yourself.

I'm sorry you'll have no female nurse now to look after you." "I wouldn't let another woman come near me after you go!" exclaimed Fritz impulsively.

"Mind, you have promised to write to me, you know." "Yes," said she, "I will answer your letters; and now, good-bye! Don't forget me quite when you get amongst the gay ladies of Paris, who will quite eclipse your little German nurse!" "Never!" he ejaculated.

"Good-bye, till we meet again!" and he pressed her hand to his lips, looking up into her eyes.
"Good-bye!" said she in a husky voice, turning away; when the dog, which had been lying down in his usual place by his master's bedside, started up, "Good-bye you, too, my darling `Fritz'!" she added, throwing her arms round the retriever's neck and kissing his smooth black head; "I nearly forgot you, dearest doggie, I do declare!" "Heavens!" exclaimed the other Fritz, mortally jealous of his dog for the moment, "I wish you would only say farewell to me like that!" Madaleine blushed a celestial rosy red.
But "Auf wiedersehen!" was all she said, as she left the room with a speaking glance from her violet eyes; and, towards the evening, from the confused bustling about which he heard going on within the villa, and the sound of carriage wheels without driving off, Fritz knew that the Baroness Stolzenkop and her party--amongst whom, of course, was Madaleine--had quitted Mezieres, on their way back to the banks of the Rhine..