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appear. In November he was again expected, and it was said 
that his wife and daughter were to accompany him, a rumour 
which added to Kaspar’s uneasiness, as he knew that Lady Stan- 
hope had always been opposed to her husband’s plans in reference 
to his German protégé. 
Still he did not come. His letters showed him to be travelling ; 
sometimes he was in England, sometimes wandering about in Ger- 
many. One of the latest letters directed that the reply should be 
sent to Rastatt, near Baden-Baden. On returning from England 
to Baden late in the autumn of 1833, Lord Stanhope went to 
Mahlberg, where he had a long conference with Hennenhofer. 
November 20, 1833, Stanhope passed by Mannheim without 
stopping, and November 26 he met Hennenhofer at Margrave 
Wilhelm’s palace in Karlsruhe. The next day, November 27, 
1833, Stanhope and Hennenhofer left Karlsruhe in a chaise 
packed with trunks. The carriage waited for them in the Durlach 
road, just outside the city; but in spite of their precautions 
Hennenhofer was seen and recognised, as the carriage was 
obliged to pass through the Durlach avenue at a foot pace, in 
consequence of the road being partially blocked by the planting 
of a new row of poplar trees. 
Early in December the Meyer family noticed a change in 
Kaspar’s demeanour. He became all at once remarkably silent 
and abstracted, lost his former interest in family affairs, ate 
scarcely anything, and yet did not appear to be ill, shut himself 
up at unusual hours in his room, and lowered the curtains as 
though occupied with some secret undertaking, showed more 
carelessness than ever as regarded his studies, and seemed in- 
different to the reproofs which had formerly grieved him. About 
this time Lieutenant Hickel left Ansbach, ostensibly on business. 
While he was away, December 11, 1833, Kaspar Hauser called 
on Frau Hickel, and during his visit mentioned having been in- 
vited by an acquaintance to go that afternoon to the park to look 
at the preparation for boring an Artesian well in a certain part of 
the grounds. Frau Hickel advised him not to go, but to call