XXIX. A DAY OF FREEDOM 353 XXX. THE MASQUERADE 362 XXXI. WHERE IS THE BRIDEGROOM? 374 XXXII. THE WEDDING AU TROISIÈME 381 XXXIII. A CHANGE 388 XXXIV. THE ARRANGEMENT 395 XXXV. THE DIFFICULTY REMOVED 403 XXXVI. THE IRON WORKS 407 XXXVII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING AND ITS 414 CONSEQUENCES XXXVIII. THE EXPERIMENT 423 XXXIX. THE RECALL 436 XL. HOHENFELS 442 XLI. THE SCHEIBEN-SCHIESSEN (TARGET SHOOTING 450 MATCH) XLII. A DISCOURSE 459 XLIII. ANOTHER KIND OF DISCOURSE 464 XLIV. THE JOURNEY HOME COMMENCES 468 XLV. WHAT OCCURRED AT THE HOTEL D’ANGLETERRE 474 IN FRANKFORT XLVI. HALT! 481 XLVII. CONCLUSION 495 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE INITIALS. --------------------- I. THE LETTER. ABOUT twelve years ago (before the building of the Bayrischen Hof), the Golden Stag, kept by an old and very corpulent Frenchman, of the name of Havard, was considered the very best hotel in Munich. It was there that all crowned heads and royal personages took up their abode; and many and bitter were the complaints of English families obliged to turn out of their apartments to admit of the turning in of an emperor, king, or archduke! In the month of August, however, such guests were unusual; and, accordingly, a young English traveller had remained for a week in undisturbed possession of one of the most comfortable rooms in the house. He seemed, however, thoroughly dissatisfied with it or with himself, walked impatiently up and down, looked long and listlessly out of the window, and then, with evident effort and stifled yawn, concluded a letter which he had previously been writing. A few lines of this letter I shall transcribe.