away hastily." It was only my duty, dear young lady," he said.
"A duty that is not onerous when it means the rescue of innocence
and the preventing of crime. It is not always so, unfortunately
- nor am I always so fortunate as in this case."

This indeed is what Muller calls a "case with a happy ending," for
scarcely a year later, to his own great embarrassment, he found
himself the most honoured guest, and a centre of attraction equally
with the bridal couple, at the marriage of Kurt von Mayringen and
Asta Langen. Muller asserts, however, that he is not a success in
society, and that he would rather unravel fifty difficult cases
than again be the "lion" at a fashionable function.