would retract it before long.

Kaiserina related the events briefly, while one of the farmers brought
two magnificent saddle-horses round to the long, high side of the house,
facing the northwest. Clemenceau mechanically mounted the bay, and the
gentleman assisted the lady upon the black. Both animals were impatient
to be gone, and when given the head, started off madly. This exciting
pace roused the student from his lethargy, and when the steeds had
settled down to a less frenzied gait, he asked what was his guide's
intention.

"It is plain. You must be put across the border into France."

"France!" it seemed to him, since the revelation of his birth in that
country, that the name had a charm unknown heretofore. Yes, he ought to
make a pilgrimage into that sunny land where his father had been a gem
in its artistic crown.

"It is your native country and you will be safer there than in Italy or
Austria. Our next stage will be the little railway station to which you
may see that long double silver serpent, the metal tracks, stretching
across the plain."




CHAPTER IX.

REPARATION.