And Lotta found Nina at the door, enveloped in her cloak.

"Lotta," she said, "will you kindly give this to my cousin Ziska ?" Then, not waiting for a word, she started away so quickly that Lotta had not a chance of speaking to her, no power of uttering an audible word of abuse.

When Ziska opened the parcel thus brought to him, he found it to contain all the notes which he had given to Josef Balatka..