after having applied for his transference from the university in
the capital to this place, which was scarce half an hour's walk
distant from the home of the beautiful young woman who had been
the love of his youth.

And Fellner had made his home in the quietest quarter of the city,
in that quarter which was nearest the Archducal hunting castle.
He had lived very quietly, had not cultivated the acquaintance of
the ladies of the town, but was a great walker and bicycle rider;
and every Saturday evening since he had been alone in the house,
he had sent his servant to the theatre. And it was on Saturday
evenings that Forest-Councillor Kniepp went to his Bowling Club
at the other end of the city, and did not return until the last
train at midnight.

And during these evening hours Fellner's apartment was a convenient
place for pleasant meetings; and nothing prevented the Professor
from accompanying his beautiful friend home through the quiet
Promenade, along the turnpike to the hunting castle. And Johann
had once found a dog-whip in his master's room-and Councillor Leo
Kniepp, head of the Forestry Department, was the possessor of a
beautiful Ulmer hound which took an active interest in people who
wore clothes belonging to Fellner.

Furthermore, in the little drawer of the bedside table in the
murdered man's room, there had been found a tortoise-shell hairpin;
and in the corner of the vestibule of his house, a little
mother-of-pearl glove button, of the kind much in fashion that
winter, because of a desire on the part of the ladies of the town
to help the home industry of the neighbourhood. Mrs. Marie Kniepp