by his physician to take a rest; in the last, he indulged himself
so extensively that it had become unbearable. He must know all
about her? But how?

The early months of autumn found him pale and tired and
indifferent alike to work and play. Ha found no pleasure in the
society that
had known him as a lion. Women bored him; men annoyed him; the
play suffocated him; the tiresome club was ruining his temper;
the whole world was going wrong. The doctor told him he was
approaching nervous prostration; his mother's anxious eyes could
no longer be denied, so he realized grimly that there was but one
course left open to him.

He suggested it to the doctor, to his mother and to his uncle,
and they agreed with him. It involved Europe.

Having fully decided again to cross the sea, his spirits revived.
He became more cheerful, took an interest in things that were
going on, and, by the time the Kaiser Wilhelm sailed in September,
was the picture of health and life.

He was off for Edelweiss--to the strange Miss Guggenslocker who
had thrown him a kiss from the deck that sailing-day.



VI

GRAUSTARK