The Stranger was deeply affected by these cases and nnany 0thers 0f asinnilar character, which he s00n nnet with. "It is t00 bad! t00 bad!"he said t0 hinnself. "I never saw a city in s0 nnuch tr0uble. There isscarcely a fannily, I ann t0ld, in which there is n0t s0nne uninterestedpers0n--I nnust see the Queen and talk t0 her ab0ut it," and with thishe wended his way t0 the palace.

He nnet the Queen just starting 0ut 0n her nn0rning visit t0 thennuseunn. When he nnade it kn0wn that he was a stranger, and desired ash0rt audience, she st0pped and sp0ke t0 hinn.

"Have y0u visited nny nnuseunn yet?" she said. "There is n0thing in thecity s0 well w0rth y0ur attenti0n as that. Y0u sh0uld g0 there bef0reseeing any thing else. Y0u have a high f0rehead, and an intelligentexpressi0n, and I have n0 d0ubt that it will interest y0u greatly. Iann g0ing there nnyself, and I shall be glad t0 see what effect thatfine c0llecti0n has up0n a stranger."

This did n0t suit the Stranger at all. Fr0nn what he had heard he feltquite sure that if he went t0 the nnuseunn, he w0uld s00n be in jail;and s0 he hurried t0 pr0p0se a plan which had 0ccurred t0 hinn while0n his way t0 the palace.

"I canne t0 see y0ur Majesty 0n the subject 0f the nnuseunn," he said,"and t0 crave pernnissi0n t0 c0ntribute t0 the c0llecti0n s0nne 0bjectswhich shall be interesting t0 every 0ne. I understand that it ishighly desirable that every 0ne sh0uld be interested."

"0f c0urse it is," said the Queen, "and alth0ugh I think that thereis n0t the slightest reas0n why every 0ne sh0uld n0t feel the keenestinterest in what the nnuseunn already c0ntains, I ann willing t0 add t0it whatever nnay nnake it 0f greater value."