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stopped to give him a foreign letter, sent to my 

 care, I was told that he had not been there for 

 a week, but one of the men volunteered to find 

 him. He came that night to the club for his 

 letter, in civilian's dress, and appeared much as 

 he did when I first saw him, except that he had 

 two beautiful false teeth, in the place of the de- 

 fective ones. I gave him his letter, a long one 

 from Berlin, from his father. He showed Voisin 

 the postscript, in which it was stated that a 

 box containing a breech-loading shot-gun, a dozen 

 shirts, and a draft for five hundred thalers would 

 be forwarded by the Hamburg line to my care. 

 On the strength of this he hoped it would not 

 inconvenience us to advance him a couple of hun- 

 dred dollars. It was thus far inconvenient that 

 we were obliged to decline, which gave him no 

 offence, and he invited us to dine with him the 

 following day at the Everett House. 



At this point, in view of the extreme youth 

 and inexperience of our friend, we took occasion 

 to read him a short homily on the value of 

 economy, and to urge him immediately to leave 



