"Ah! Such a one can hardly escape notice in Vienna!" said the Jesuit. "And what is your purpose with this maiden—this Elspeth Reinheit?"
"To take her back to her father, and if she be indeed yet a true maid, to marry her!"
"She would scarcely have suffered loss in company of a great lady?"
"I do not know anything of great ladies! But I have many reasons to think this foreign officer may have wronged her—even in Magdeburg."
"'Judge not, that ye be not judged,' Pastor Rad. I promise that, if she be in Vienna, she shall be handed over to you. See to it that you deal tenderly with your lamb in return for our gentle dealing with you."
"I was robbed of my money!" Pastor Rad complained.
"It shall be repaid to you twice over," said the Jesuit. "How much was it?"
The pastor told him, and the Jesuit noted it on his tablets.
"Now get to your lodgings and wait there a day. A servant shall go with you."