Whenever the professor got from the girl an intelligent reply to his pantomimic inquiries, or whenever he believed that he got such a reply, it was immediately jotted down in the ever open note book which he carried in his hand.
And then he would turn to us standing by, and with one hand on his heart, and the other sweeping grandly through the air, would make a profound bow and say:
"The young lady and I great progress make already. I have her words comprehended. We shall wondrous mysteries solve. Jawohl! Wunderlich! Make yourselves gentlemen easy. Of the human race the ancestral stem have I here discovered."
Once I glanced over a page of his notebook and there I read this:
"Mars—Zahmor
"Copper—Hayez
"Sword—Anz
"I jump—Altesna
"I slay—Amoutha
"I cut off a head—Ksutaskofa