"Because I do not wish any body to kiss Magde--is it not so, Magde? You
well know how I behaved myself when Mr. Fabian H---- wanted to buy a
kiss of you."
"What! I believe the poor boy is mad! What! Buy a kiss of Magde! Poor
Carl!"
"Am I speaking false, Magde? Answer me."
"O, Carl, how strangely you tell your story!" exclaimed Magde, "you
ought first to have related how it happened, and--"
Magde flushed and paled alternately, and in her excitement could
scarcely express herself.
"Can there be any truth in this?" said Ragnar, and his eyes sparkled.
Magde had now recovered her presence of mind, and related, without
concealing a single fact, all that had happened between herself and Mr.
Fabian.
"I am now firmly convinced that this--this--no matter, that Mr. H----
was the prime cause of our father's imprisonment."
"He was," interrupted old Mr. Lonner. "I am as firmly convinced of it,
as I am that the young man of whom I have spoken was the cause of my
release. I wish you were acquainted with Mr.
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