154 WHIP AND SPUR. 



In the general mustering-out Voisin had been 

 set free and had joined me in New York, and had, 

 naturally, participated in all my interest in the 

 quondam Count. He gradually, as an adjutant 

 should, assumed the correspondence, which was 

 voluminous, and by the time we were informed 

 that Dohna was detailed for recruiting duty in 

 the city, neither he nor I was glad to know it. 

 Something more than a feeling of regretful sym- 

 pathy is necessary to the enjoyment of frequent 

 companionship, and we both felt that the fact of 

 having credit with a tailor was a dangerous ele- 

 ment in the possible future combinations. How- 

 ever, Dohna's arrival at our room followed close 

 upon the announcement of the order. He was 

 still simple in his way and of modest deportment, 

 but he seemed to have accepted his new life 

 almost too entirely, and he had come to look not 

 very much out of place among his comrades. 

 Their quarters were in a basement in Chambers 

 Street, back of the City Hall, where we occasion- 

 ally dropped in to see him. After a while he 

 was always out when we called, and once when I 



