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that step, and would have preferred to return as a simple officer 

 to Berlin. Whenever he made a journey it was rumoured he 

 would not return, probably by people with whose wishes this 

 would have coincided. At all events, he is still in Bucharest, 

 and as far as I know without any intention of leaving it. 



We dined several times at the Weinburg, and passed there 

 very agreeable hours. The Prince presented me with an album 

 containing photographic views of the Weinburg, and the Prin- 

 cess frequently sent me fine flowers and grapes ; and all came 

 / to see us in Rorschach. Jimmy was highly displeased with 

 I these visits, for the dogs of the Weinburg were not so hospita- 

 1 ble towards him as their masters towards his, and he had with 

 j them a rather severe fight. 



The kindness of Prince, Hohenzollern was, however, not re- 

 stricted to mere politeness ; he understood and sympathised 

 with the position ot Salm, and promised to assist him, which 

 he did in a very noble and princely manner. 



It was deemed expedient and even necessary that we should 

 go to Berlin to pursue the endeavours of Felix to get a suitable 

 position in the Prussian army. We therefore left Rorschach 

 on October 2, and I was very glad, for it was at least a step 

 towards a final settlement, for which I longed much. These 

 perpetual troubles and anxieties, these false hopes and delays, 

 were almost more than I could bear, and I was yearning with 

 all my heart for rest. 



In passing Majence we met there an old friend of my hus- 

 band's, a Mr. Kalmer, and his wife, who was with him at Paris 

 at a very sad period of his life, before he left for the United 

 States. We went over to Wiesbaden to see that celebrated 

 beautiful watering-place. Of course we tried our luck at the 

 roulette-table. I sacrificed a few gilders, but Salm won, to my 

 envy, a good many. 



Next morning we started for Bonn, where ' Uncle Hermann ' 

 waited for us at the station, and took us to his house. We 

 made the acquaintance of a Baroness Frank, whom we visited 

 at her beautiful country-house, which might be rather called a 

 palace, situated on the opposite side of the Rhine, not far 

 from the Drachenfels, The hereditary Prince of Anholt came 

 also to see us, and we all made a nice party to Rolandseck. 



On October 7 we left for Berlin, and arrived late in the 

 c\ ening at the Hotel St. Petersburg, Unter den Linden. 



