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08 Ten Years of my Life. 



disappointed in my expectations, for my brother-in-law had 

 really no horse to spare. His'eldest son, who was an ofiicer 

 in the reserve, and attached to the staff of General von Goe- 

 ben, mounted himself out of his father's stables, as did two 

 other sons who were both ofticers, and the father himself, who 

 was a Knight of Malta, went with the armv. 



Whilst Alfred staye4 in Cologne with the Knights of Malta, 

 I went on to Bonn, where I arrived at three p.m. dead-beat. 

 It was good luck that I arrived at all that day, for in Cologne 

 I was told that no passenger trains would leave for several 

 days. Seeing, however, a train ready to start, and inquiring 

 I heard that it was an extra train for the Hereditary Princes 

 of Hohenzollern and Weimar." The Prince of Hohenzollern, 

 a very agreeable, unpretending gentleman, was the innocent 

 cause of this war, as is generally known. As I was well ac- 

 quainted with him he permitted very readily my travelling with 

 him, and presented me to the Hereditary Piince of Weimar, 

 who was going to join the head-quarters of the Crown Prmce 

 of Prussia. The latter was still a very young gentleman. 

 Prince Plohenzolletn, who was a colonel, went also to the 

 Crown Prince. 



On the 30th I received an answer from Prince Pless, telling 

 me to go to President von Bernuth in Cologne to receive from 

 him a ticket of legitimation, and I started at hve o'clock p.m., 

 accom.panied by Prince Leopold Salm-Salm, whom I had seen 

 frequently in Bonn. As no passenger train was lunning we 

 had to go in a transport train. I received from the President 

 von Bernuth the first legitimation card issued in Cologne and 

 also the white band with the red cross. We returned cc Bonn 

 at ten o'clock, sitting with the conductor m die caboose A 

 another transport train. 



I had still to accomplish several ve.y difficult things, ana 

 that in a rather short tune, viz., 10 procure a legitimation ticket 

 for Miss Runkel, ^o procure a horse, and lastly but by no 

 means leastly the permission to take one with me, and to re- 

 ceive forage for it, which was rather important. Having heard 

 from Prince Leopold that Baron Oppenheim in Colonge had a 

 horse, which he might perhaps be inclined to sell, I called on 

 that gentleman, but I was disappointed, as he dared not sell 

 me the horse, because it was rather unmanageable and a run. 

 away 



