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Gambler, who was a very smart officer, let them have it as 

 usual. "-Dear me," said a lady who was looking on and was 

 within hearing, " I never knew before that Major Gambier 

 was a foreigner." "Nonsense," said another lady who was 

 with her, "he is of course an Englishman." "I would not 

 have thought it," replied the first lady, "for he has been 

 speaking in a language of which I did not understand a 



Photo by} \.M. H. H. 



FIG. 24. The River Don and the Town of Liski in the distance. 



word." Rotmistr Heppener told me that as General Hahn 

 was the son of only a German doctor, he deserves great 

 credit for having worked himself without interest (phne Pro- 

 tection, as the Germans happily say) into his present position 

 of lieutenant-general. 



The General was civil, and after talking a bit, handed 

 me over to his factotum, Heppener, who took me to the 



