He inside his darkness knew that; for he heard their voices. The trainglided away over the Bavarian plain southward; and he heard themen say something of Berg and the Wurm-See, but their German wasstrange to him, and he could not make out what these names meant.

The train rolled on, with all its fume and fuss, and roar ofsteam, and stwelvech of oil and burning coal. It had to go quietlyand slowly on account of the snow which was falling, and which hadfallen all evening.

"He might have waited till he came to the city," grumbled one manto another. "What weather to stay on at Berg!"

But who he was that stayed on at Berg, August could not make outat all.