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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