This fellow smiled." "And if I find out anything suspicious ?" "Arrest him out of hand and bring him here at once." Alone once more the sub-chief studied the cutting with official thoroughness.

He was finally convinced, by the regularity of the line on the printed side as compared with the irregularity of the line on the advertising side, that the vintner had lied.

And yet there was no proof that he had.
"This young fellow will go far," he mused, with reluctant admiration.
On reaching the street Gretchen gave rein to her laughter.

What promised to be a tragedy was only a farce.

The vintner laughed, too, but Momus would have criticized his laughter.
The night was not done yet; there were still some more surprises in store for the vintner.