Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBUCAAAAQAAJ&dq AT EVERY LIBRARY. NEW WORK BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. * * * PARIS HERSELF AGAIN In 1878-9, With Four Hundred Illustrations BY Cham, Bertall, Pelcoq, Grevin, Gill, Marie, Morin, Deroy, Lalanne, Benoist, Lafosse, Mars, etc. * * * * * 2 Vols. Demy 8vo. Cloth, Handsomely Bound. 25s. * * * * * London: REMINGTON & CO., 5, Arundel Street, W.C. HERMANN. A Novel, BY E. WERNER. _Author of_ "_Success and How He Won it_," "_Under a Charm_," "_Riven Bonds_," "_No Surrender_," _etc_. TRANSLATED BY HELEN KEER BROWN. * * * * * London: REMINGTON AND CO., 5, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C. * * * 1879. [_All Rights Reserved_.] HERMANN. CHAPTER I. "But, Doctor, for heaven's sake tell us what this is all about." "The whole town is talking of it already, and still we have heard no particulars!" "Surely it is impossible, Doctor, it cannot be true!" He, to whom all these questions and exclamations were addressed, rapped his stick with an air of impatient vexation against the pavement, and replied in a rather dry, concise tone-- "What you may think possible or impossible, gentlemen, is not for me to decide; the fact is simply this, that the sum of 20,000 thalers is missing, and that the steward, Brand, has shot himself this morning. You can decide for yourselves the connection between the two circumstances." The assembled officers of the Prince's household surrounded, with pale, horrified faces, the principal physician of the town, from whose lips they had just received confirmation of a report, which had already agitated the little town for some hours. "It is really true, then! And they say that the misfortune happened in Count Arnau's own room."