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Kaspar Hauser. 
course. He went regularly to his copying work at the law office, 
and continued his lessons with Herr Meyer and the teacher of 
Latin. His leisure hours were spent in cultivating the pretty 
pursuits which he had from time to time acquired, in drawing ang 
painting and making pasteboard trifles. He also visited the 
pastor’s family and a few other steadfast friends, and took frequent 
walks in the streets and in the most accessible portions of the 
royal park. When Feuerbach consented to the dismissal of 
Kaspar’s regular attendant, and allowed him to go out alone by 
daylight in the principal thoroughfares, the park was especially 
forbidden to him ; but as the main paths were almost as much 
frequented as the streets, he soon took the liberty of transgressing 
that rule, and although Hickel and Meyer knew that he was in the 
habit of walking in the park, they made no objection to the prac- 
tice. Meyer always thought that far too much ado was made 
over Kaspar Hauser, and did not believe that he was in any 
danger. ‘Hickel knew better; but it seems to have been the 
object of the conspirators to isolate the young man as much as 
possible from his friends, and to leave him exposed to the attacks 
of his enemies when the time should be ripe. Accordingly, he 
came and went as he liked, and his doings when out of the house 
were not closely inquired into by his guardians. There is reason 
to believe that he was followed, and accosted and cajoled by an 
agent, or by agents, of the chief conspirators for some time previ- 
ous to the final crisis of his fate, the lure being a promise to 
divulge the secret of his birth, and perhaps to take him away from 
his condition of helpless dependence and restore him to the brilli- 
ant position of which he had so long been deprived. Kaspar was 
so eager to know his origin that he would have believed in any 
one who might have undertaken to deceive him, and he was so 
unhappy in Ansbach that he would have welcomed any prospect 
of escape from his oppressive situation. 
In October, 1833, Lord Stanhope announced his intention of 
returning to Ansbach, and requested that lodgings should be 
secured for him ; but when the appointed time arrived he did not