"It's an honor to Tellnitz and to me that a lady of the house of Auersperg should stop at my inn.

The prince himself, we hear, has returned to the great war." "Ah!" said John, but there was immense satisfaction under the subdued "ah" over the important information coming to him by mere chance.

He opened the door for Julie and Suzanne to alight, and still heavily muffled they were bowed into the house by Herr Leinfelder.
"I shall be on guard tonight," whispered John to Julie, as she passed.
"Did you hear him say that the Prince of Auersperg had gone back to the war ?" She nodded as she disappeared into the interior of the inn, and he knew that a weight had been lifted from her heart also.

The pursuit surely could not be so fierce and lasting when the one who gave it impulse was gone.
There was a small garage behind the inn, and the great automobile almost filled it, but John, clinging to his role of chauffeur, which was expedient in every sense, would not trust it to any of the servants of the hotel.

He inspected it carefully himself, saw that everything was in proper order, and not until then did he enter the inn in search of food and fire.
"My mistress ?" he asked of August, the head waiter.