"
"Why, my dear woman, you can't stay here," replied the policeman; "find
a night's lodging, and in the morning you can be here in ample time to
meet your husband."
"Oh, do let me stay here, I don't know anybody in the city, where am I
to go now in the night, it will surely be morning in two or three
hours," pleaded Panna, at the same time drawing from her pocket a
florin, one of the last she had left, which she slipped into the hand
of the guardian of order. After this argument the latter evidently
discovered that it would be no very serious crime if a beautiful young
woman waited in front of the jail, on a warm, moon-lit night in May,
for her husband's release, for, with an incomprehensible mutter, he
pursued his round, on which, during the next two hours, he repeatedly
passed Panna without troubling himself any farther about her.
All fatigue had now left the watcher and, after this disturbance, she
did not close her eyes a second time. She was once more calm and
strong, and constantly repeated in her mind that she was about to do a
good, needful work, pleasing to God.
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