SOS

O-Y THE MISSISSIPPI.

Toward midnight I set out, equipped with the countersign, and
picked my way toward the lonely region where Adler was to keep his
watch. It was so dark that I stumbled right on a dim figure almost
before I could get out a protecting word. The sentinel hailed and I

THE TBAGEDY.

answered, both at the same moment. I added, * It's only me—the
fortune-teller.* Then I slipped to the poor devil's side, and without
a word I drove my dirk into his heart! Ja wohl, laughed I, it was
tlie tragedy part of his fortune, indeed I As he fell from his horse