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his bounty. From this he would give me money 

 to release his baggage, which was valuable, from 

 Bome inconveniences that were then attending it 

 in St. Louis. Would I get him enlisted? He 

 said he would enlist, and would prefer to be 

 known under the name Adolph Danforth. The 

 gentleman himself took early occasion to express 

 this preference. 



I debated a little what to do. He was not 

 introduced as a friend, only as a person in need 

 of help; yet Voisin believed in him, and he had 

 asked a service that he would not have asked for 

 an unworthy man. I engaged him in conversa- 

 tion and got him to smile. It was a very frank 

 smile, but it displayed a singular defect far up 

 on the front teeth. This decided me. He was 

 the same Graf zu whose position had been asked 

 of the Prussian Consul, and I knew he had learned 

 that the Graf zu Dohna-Schlodien, an officer in 

 the Gardecorps Kiirassier, was of the highest 

 nobility and of a family of great wealth. There 

 was evidently no technical reason why the poor 

 fellow should not be received cordially and well 



