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card of the firm on the paper, but the paper was 

 ruled as a German banker's paper never is, and 

 the plate from which the card had been printed 

 (also made in Boston) was in the envelope with 

 it. A letter from plain father Stabenow enclosed 

 photographs of still plainer mother and sister 

 Stabenow, which were a sad contrast to the glory 

 of the Countess Dohna's picture. The father's 

 letter was full of kindly reproof and affectionate 

 regret. "Ach ! Fritz, ich hatte das von Dir nicht 

 gedacht," — "I never thought that of you"; but 

 it was forgiving too, and promised the remittance, 

 clothing, and gun I have spoken of before. The 

 papers, for the loss of which such tears had been 

 shed at Fort Trumbull, were all there in their 

 well-worn companionship with a soiled paper- 

 collar, and that badge of dawning civilization, a 

 tooth-brush. 



Here were also two photographs, one of the 

 statue of Frederick the Great in Berlin on the 

 card of a St. Louis photographer, and another 

 of himself in Prussian uniform, on the card of 

 a Berlin photographer. The pictures had been 



