STERZING-AM-B RENNER fortable for their kinsfolk, and I distinctly heard her whisper to herself ' Beautiful,' and wondered whether she had remembered her aunts in her devotions. Neither of us spoke, till near the hotel I mentioned her brother's flight, for which she accounted by ' Possibly some prejudice ' ! ! A minute later we found him in front of the inn, on friendly terms with a tall mug, nursing the Strangers' Book of last century, chuckling over its quaint entries. She asked why he »left
the church. ' Listen,' he said : ' 'Abhor Hotel Brenner at every costs the straws is wet gives rheums to horses and humane feedings is unjustly cooked.' This is the best a Duke's courier could do in 1827.' After that he took us for a run across history by an indication here and there of people who must have passed the spot where we were standing, and who possibly stayed in the house—German Caesars on their way to Coronation at Rome, Charles V. strolling up and down Europe, Barbarossa, Frederick