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 you with for an explanation of the apparition of last night?"

"I gazed at him in dumb silence."

"If you wish to have unfolded that incident," he resumed, after a short pause, "then await me this evening, by ten o'clock, at the town gate, next to the inn."

"The stranger pronounced these words with a friendly courteous mien, made me a bow, and left the bower, disappearing amid the crowd."

"The waiter brought the chocolate, but I could not swallow a single drop. In vain did I now roam all over the garden, in hopes of meeting the stranger; in vain ask all my acquaintances and the waiters, describing minutely the stranger to every one; nobody had seen him."