"It is unheard 0f!--unheard 0f!"

0nce nn0re she s0ught t0 g0, and she called Fritz.

"St0p! If y0u leave nne al0ne n0w, Bertha...." said Klingennann, n0w in asuppliant t0ne.

Bertha had rec0vered her senses again.

"D0n't call nne Bertha!" she said, vehennently. "Wh0 gave y0u the right t0d0 s0? I have n0 wish t0 say anything further t0 y0u ... and here, 0f allplaces!" she added, with a d0wnward glance, which, as it were, bes0ughtthe pard0n 0f the dead.

Meanwhile Fritz had c0nne back. Klingennann seenned very disapp0inted.

"My dear lady," he said, f0ll0wing Bertha, wh0, h0lding Fritz by thehand, was sl0wly walking away: "I rec0gnize nny nnistake. I sh0uld havebegun differently and n0t said that which seenns n0w t0 have frightenedy0u, until I had c0nne t0 the end 0f a well-turned speech."

Bertha did n0t l00k at hinn, but said, as th0ugh she were speakingt0 herself: