And he will be so glad to see you.

He has been asking for you all day." * * * * * * At Pernambuco, his excellency the President of the Republic of Brazil was waited on by Admiral Prince Heinrich von Schnitzenhausen, who was attended by an imposing armed guard.

After compliments, the admiral stated that his Imperial master wished to be informed as to the truth or otherwise of a circumstantial statement made by the German Consul at Maceio, and confirmed by functionaries at Pernambuco, that on a certain date, to wit, September the 2d, he, Dom Corria De Sylva, aided and abetted by a number of filibusters, did unlawfully seize and sequestrate the steamship _Unser Fritz_, the said steamship being the property of German subjects and flying the German flag.
Though the admiral's sentence was much longer than its English translation, it only contained a dozen words.

Its sound was fearsome in consequence, and its effect ought to have been portentous.

But Dom Corria was unmoved.
"There is some mistake," said he.
"Exactly," said the admiral, "an-error-the-most-serious-and-not-easily-rectifiable." "On your part," continued Dom Corria.