MEMBERS OF THE PARTY. TWO OF THE LITTLE INNOCENTS HAD TAKEN A FANCY TO THE SAME DRAWING (A COPY OF HIS FAVOURITE JOHN BELLINO), AND AFTER A BRIEF, BUT FIERCE STRUGGLE FOR POSSESSION, HAD SETTLED THE DIFFICULTY BY TEARING IT IN TWO. (PARTY RETIRES RATHER PRECIPITATELY.)

     TRIESTE TO VIENNA.

     VIENNA.

   ARRIVED AT VIENNA, THEY VISIT THE THEATRE. A GENTLEMAN THERE, UNOBTRUSIVELY PAYS THEM GREAT ATTENTION.

   SCENE—SHOP, VIENNA.

   JONES TO BROWN— “WHAT DO YOU SAY?”

   BROWN (WHO SEES THAT ROBINSON IS BENT UPON MAKING A “MAGNIFICENT ADDITION” TO HIMSELF, AND THAT IT IS USELESS TO EXPOSTULATE). —“OH, I THINK IT IS SPLENDID; AND IF YOU WILL ONLY APPEAR IN IT IN PALL MALL, WHEN WE GET HOME AGAIN, YOU WILL MAKE A SENSATION.”

   THEY VISIT THE PICTURE GALLERIES.

   THAT MAN IN THE DOORWAY SEEMS TO TAKE A GREAT INTEREST IN THEIR MOVEMENTS.

   THE PROMENADE.

   BROWN THINKS IT IS THE SAME MAN! WHAT CAN HE WANT?

   THE PUBLIC GARDEN.

   THERE HE WAS AGAIN! JONES SUGGESTED THAT PERHAPS IT WAS A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, WHO TOOK THEM FOR LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND FRATERNITY.

   NO SOONER DID THEY TAKE THEIR PLACES AT THE TABLE D’HOTE TO DINE, THAN BROWN FELL BACK IN HIS CHAIR. THERE COULD BE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT—HE WAS BETTER DRESSED THAN BEFORE—BUT IT WAS THE SAME MAN! HE MUST BE A SPY!

     VIENNA TO PRAGUE.

   “JUST TEN MINUTES TO DRESS, BREAKFAST, AND GET TO THE TRAIN.”

     PRAGUE.

   WALLENSTEIN’S HORSE.

   “THE HEAD, NECK, LEGS, AND PART OF THE BODY HAVE BEEN REPAIRED—ALL THE REST IS THE REAL HORSE.”

    —From speech of the young woman who showed the animal.

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