50902 Let us glance at our Continental Gazetteer.'
50903 He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves.
50904 'Eglow, Eglonitz - here we are, Egria.
50905 It is in a German-speaking country - in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad.
50906 "Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass factories and paper mills."
50907 Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of that?'
50908 His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.
50909 'The paper was made in Bohemia,' I said.
50910 'Precisely.
50911 And the man who wrote the note is a German.
50912 Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence - "This account of you we have from all quarters received."
50913 A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that.
50914 It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.
50915 It only remains, therefore, to discover what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper, and prefers wearing a mask to showing his face.