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ful integrity. It was said, by persons who pretended to know,
‘hat the Earl was not a wealthy man, and, having already a wife
and children, was not in a condition to adopt a son.
He was known to have subsisted principally upon the sale of
his German hymn-book and other devotional works, for which he
vas a colporteur, and this sudden acquisition of wealth appeared
in the eyes of the wary to imply a sum advanced for a distinct
purpose, by an unknown party, he being the agent for the carry-
‘ng out of some secret plan.
This theory seemed the more plausible because the letters of
credit were all upon German houses, principally upon the bank of
Haber in Karlsruhe, the same which had been so useful to
Grand-Duke Ludwig as to cause him to ennoble the head of the
use as a mark of gratitude “ for services rendered.”
The fact that Lord Stanhope deposited those letters with a Nur-
>mberg merchant was a suspicious circumstance, as letters of
credit are usually kept in the owner’s possession and only shown
when money is needed. He also obtained advances upon the
sapers during his stay in Nuremberg, which proved that he was
1ot living upon his private means, but depended upon foreign
‘esources for his subsistence.
However, the principal arbiters of Kaspar Hauser’s fate, Mayor
Binder and Herr von Tucher, rejected all adverse suggestions
and were convinced of the material ability and moral integrity of
he generous Englishman ; still, the warnings of the disaffected
ninority had the effect of delaying the actual surrender of the
youth, and Tord Stanhope, perceiving that he would injure his
cause by appearing too eager, ceased to urge the question of
adoption, and contented himself with doing all in his power to
acquire complete influence over his predestined victim and to
prejudice him agdinst his strict but kind guardian and his other
rue friends in Nuremberg.
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| The noble lord also encouraged with all his might the prevail-
ng belief in Kaspar Hauser’s Hungarian origin as a means of
rurning away attention from Baden, and he must have laughed