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The weather was very bad, and before the scene of that fatal 
meeting in the park was examined, the rain had obliterated the 
footmarks which had previously been made in the snow. How- 
ever, the purse which the stranger had handed to Kaspar, and 
which he had let fall on being wounded, was found upon the 
ground at the spot indicated by Kaspar. It was a purple silk 
purse, and within it was an elaborately-folded note, which, on 
being examined in a mirror (the writing was reversed), contained 
the following information ; — 
““ Hauser wird es euch ganz 
genau erzihlen konnen, wie 
ich aussehe und wo her ich bin 
Dem Hauser die Miihe zu ersparen 
will ich euch selber sagen, woher 
ich komme— 
¢¢ Ich komme von von 
der Baierischen Grinze 
am Flusse— 
“Ich will euch sogar noch den 
Namen sagen. 
“M. L. O.” 
“ Hauser can tell you exactly how 1 look, and whence I come. 
“To spare Hauser the trouble, I will tell you myself that 
[ come from the Bavarian frontier on the 
river... . 
“T will even tell you the name. 
4M. L. O.” 
On leaving Hofmann, Meyer promised to come the next day 
and explain his charges against Kaspar. At nine o'clock he 
appeared, saying that Kaspar’s condition, according to the attend- 
ing physician, Dr. Horlacher, was entirely natural, and that his 
wound was not in the least dangerous. 
Meyer's explanations of the charges consisted in trivial fault-