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There were three men in New York that day, who, although they occupied their accustomed table, the best in one of its most exclusive clubs, and although their luncheon was chosen with the usual care, were never really conscious of what they were eating. Weiss was one, John Bardsley another, and Higgins, the railway man, the third.
The carriage was drawn up in the covered way as I could see by the faint glimmer of the distant candle; which also enabled me dimly to discern the coachman standing close by in the shadow. I looked round, rather expecting to see Mr. Weiss, but, as he made no appearance, I entered the carriage.
I will meet you with my broker and lawyer at ten o'clock at your office, Weiss, and if I make up my mind to go to Europe, my luggage will be on the steamer by that time. On the whole I might tell you that I am inclined to go." Weiss drew a great breath of relief. He poured himself out a glass of wine and drank it off. "It's good to hear you say that, Duge," he said.
Some said he was a Jew, chiefly because none knew rightly what he was or whence he had come. Thirty years had gone by since he had suddenly appeared one day in the noble old house by the Weiss Thor, from which Grätz the wizard and his wife had been burned out by the fury of the populace. Twenty years of artistic labor had made this place what it now was.
"Here it is; leave it at home to-morrow if you can, dear, will you?" Silence again, this time continued and profound. Mrs. Weiss was evidently not coming to-day to ask me if she should give blow for blow in her next connubial fracas. I was thankful to be spared until the morrow, when I should perhaps have greater strength to attack Mr. Weiss, and see what I could do for Mrs.
I was about to say that the effect of the medicine itself might throw some light on the patient's condition, but, as I proposed to treat him for morphine poisoning, I thought it wiser to keep this item of information to myself. Accordingly, I confined myself to a few general directions as to the care of the patient, to which Mr. Weiss listened attentively.
This struck me as excessively strange and by no means in agreement with the patient's energetic refusal to see a doctor. "But," I asked, "does he never rouse completely?" "Oh, yes," Mr. Weiss answered quickly; "he rouses from time to time and is then quite rational, and, as you may have gathered, rather obstinate.
He had to leave rather unexpectedly to take up some business in Germany." "I hope he paid his rent," said Thorndyke. "Oh, yes. Trust us for that. But I should say that Mr. Weiss that was his name was a man of some means. He seemed to have plenty of money, though he always paid in notes. I don't fancy he had a banking account in this country.
The words that follow in this paragraph are a reminiscence of a singularly eloquent and powerful passage in a speech of Dr. Maclaren, of Manchester, delivered last year in Edinburgh. Weiss, however, supposes Psalm xxxiv. 20 to be the reference. On the symbolism of this phenomenon see the excursus in Westcott's Gospel of St. John, pp. 284-86. E.g., Lange, characteristically.
Weiss and the lieutenant, accompanied by the corporal and two men, had ascended to the attic, where they were in better position to observe the road, of which they had an oblique view as far as the Place de l'Eglise. The square was now occupied by the Bavarians, but any further advance was attended by difficulties that made them very circumspect.
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