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`` A letter for your excellency , '' said the concierge . `` Wait till I read it . There may be an answer . '' `` If Herr Carmichael would learn the secret of number forty Krumerweg , let him attire himself as a vintner and be in the Krumerweg at eight o'clock to-night . '' This note was as welcome to the recipient as the flowers in the spring . An adventure ? He was ready , now and always .