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A ROMANCE 41
CHAPTEE lY.
IX TVHICH THE PRIXCE COLLECTS OPIXIOXS
BY THE WAY.
A LITTLE before noon Otto, by a triumph of
manceiivring, effected his escape. He was quit
in this way of the ponderous gratitude of Mr.
Kilhan, and of the confidential gratitude of
poor Ottiha ; but of Fritz he was not quit so
readily. That young pohtician, brimming with
mysterious glances, offered to lend his convoy as
far as to the highroad ; and Otto, in fear of some
residuary jealousy and for the girl's sake, had
not the courage to gainsay him ; but he regarded
his companion with uneasy glances, and devoutly
wished the business at an end. For some time
Fritz walked by the mare in silence ; and they
had already traversed more than half the pro-
posed distance when, with something of a blush,
he looked up and opened fire.
' Are you not,' he asked, ' what they call a
socialist ? '