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It was the "Heynal," the watchman's horn-song from the towers of Panna Marya. Once given, a magician caught it, played with it, pursued it, juggled with it, through a series of variations till, finally, a grave and beautiful modulation led back to the noble dirge of the beginning. "I know who wrote that! who must have written it!" said Otto, looking up. He named a French name.
And as a last contribution, a young French pianist, rising rapidly into fame both as a virtuoso and a composer, was writing specially a series of variations on the lovely theme of the "Heynal" that traditional horn-song, played every hour in the ears of Cracow, from the tower of Panna Marya of which Otto had spoken to Falloden. But all these things were as yet hidden from Otto.
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