took it out of my hand (in welding there had been 

 considerable spreading that had to be trimmed off). 



He said, "Let me finish it. I take back all I have 

 said, I have been making a blasted blustering d — d 

 fool of invself and I promise not to do so again." I 

 was glad of the relief for I was near giving out. I no 

 doubt deserved credit for my pluck but not for making 

 the weld which I got, for it really belonged to Henri 

 Mogeme and the helpers. The object was gained 

 and before father's return from Richmond there 

 were some well made levers finished .... 



One day, I cannot say how long afterwards. I was 

 in the Market Street store giving out cards to be set 

 and there were a number of girls between the desk and 

 the counter when the front door opened and a man 

 dressed in black with a low crowned broad brimmed 

 hat with a wisp of crape around it came in. The 

 man's face was clean shaved and under the rim of his 

 hat dark hair curled in ringlets as if just from the 

 curling tongs of the hair dresser. 



The man spoke before I recognized that it was 

 Henri Mogeme. He said he had come to bid us 

 Good-by as he was about to sail for his old home. I 

 took him to the back end of the store and father and 

 A. L. Pennock were there. When he took off his hat 

 father remarked that he had grown some ten or more 

 years younger. History was soon told. He had a 

 roll of papers in his hand which he unrolled and 

 showed us colored drawings of Hydraulions in detail. 

 He said this was the work of his nephew. He said 

 that after graduating at the Polytechnic he resolved 

 to make himself a practical workman and the only 

 way of doing so was to go out incognito and that his 

 father, the Duke, thought it a mad scheme and was 



not willing that he should go alone and he had 



therefore taken his nephew who was an orphan and 

 for nearly four years they had been together. He 

 said that while in France and England he had made 

 several visits home but had not been home since 

 comin? to America and that now he was obliged 

 to return as his father had suddenly and unexpectedly 

 died. He said that under an assumed name and 

 character was the only way he could accomplish the 

 object he had in coming to this country because he 

 knew the Americans' fondness of toadying to titled 

 foreigners and that as a son of a Duke with the 

 prospective title society claims would have taken all 

 his time. There was but one person in America to 

 whom his identity was entrusted and that was Mr. 

 Biddle the head of the broker firm and that was a 

 necessity in case of any trouble, such as his fellow 

 workman had tried to bring on him . . . ."-' 



In showing his nephew's drawings it was to show 

 how- well he had played his part as they had a large 

 number of drawings of American machinery which 

 he said might be useful to him. He regretted that 

 he had not been able to devote some time to the 

 west, particularly the steamboat navigation of the 

 great rivers. When I asked after the boy he said he 

 was in New York getting their belongings ready for 

 a vessel to sail directly for a German port and that 

 they had already engaged passage. [18] 



; - I have found no further information on the German, 

 except for the deleted portion (2,500 words) of this passage, 

 which tells of the spying on Mogeme by other workmen. A 

 review of published travels has yielded nothing. 



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