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Her eyes had followed him, and as he remained a moment motionless in the doorway her lips parted in a grateful smile, and she waved her fan with a faint but unmistakable gesture of farewell. The next morning he left Alstadt.
Under the name of Ernest Crawford I was idling away some pleasant weeks at the Europäischer Hof, in the Alstadt, in Dresden, where I had made the acquaintance of a fair-haired Englishman named Upton, and his wife, a fluffy little woman some five years his junior. They had arrived at the hotel about a week after I had taken up my quarters, and as they became friendly I often took them for runs.
Certain fanatics, also, had appeared, who, though professing to found their doctrines on the Bible, were greatly opposed to the principles of the Gospel. The most notorious of these was Thomas Munzer, pastor of Alstadt, in Thuringia; another was John Muller, of Bulgenbach, in the Black Forest, the inhabitants of which he rallied round him, and raised the standard of rebellion.
"Come," he said gently, "there are no other sightseers waiting, and your conscience is clear," and he moved toward the rustic seat. "Certainly not there," she added in a low voice. They moved on slowly together to a copse of willows which overhung the miniature stream. "You are not staying long in Alstadt?" she said. "No; I only came to see the old town that my ancestors came from."
With a long breath of relief he hurried from the park. It was late when he finally got back to his hotel. But his little modern adventure had, I fear, quite outrun his previous medieval reflections, and almost his first inquiry of the silver-chained porter in the courtyard was in regard to the park. There was no public park in Alstadt!
Since yesterday we're sure of that and now This paper warrants for the troops, there's nothing Stands in the way of our full confidence. Prague shall not part us. Hear! The chancellor Contents himself with Alstadt; to your grace He gives up Ratschin and the narrow side. But Egra above all must open to us, Ere we can think of any junction.
In point of fact, at such times tickets of admission were to be had at the hotel for fifty pfennige each. There was not, of truth, much to see except a model farm and dairy the pretty toy of a previous Grand Duchess. But he seemed destined to come into closer collision with the modern life of Alstadt.
I have finished with this old town and my ancestors, and the Grand Duke, whom I do not care to see, and I shall leave Alstadt tomorrow!" "Thank you! I don't catch on." "Of what necessity should you? I have said it. That should be enough for a chivalrous American like you." She again significantly looked down at her hand.
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