The fellow took it with something like
a wink.
"As for you, you've searched here and found nobody," concluded
Mr. Rassendyll. "So hadn't you better at once search somewhere
else?,
"Without doubt, sir," said the sergeant, and with the most
deferential salute, and another confidential smile, he turned and
rode back by the way he had come. No doubt he wished that he
could meet a gentleman who was--not the king--every morning of
his life. It hardly need be said that all idea of connecting the
gentleman with the crime committed in the Konigstrasse had
vanished from his mind. Thus Rudolf won freedom from the man's
interference, but at a dangerous cost--how dangerous he did not
know. It was indeed most impossible that the king could be in
Strelsau.
He lost no time now in turning his steps towards his refuge. It
was past five o'clock, day came quickly, and the streets began to
be peopled by men and women on their way to open stalls or to buy
in the market. Rudolf crossed the square at a rapid walk, for he
was afraid of the soldiers who were gathering for early duty
opposite to the barracks. Fortunately he passed by them
unobserved, and gained the comparative seclusion of the street in
which my house stands, without encountering any further
difficulties.
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