reover, translated Heine, adding other details.

"Gott verdammich--_heiss_!" cried the Colonel in amazement. "Is dot der
Karl Leland vot dranslate de _Reisebilder_? Herr je! I hafe got dat
very pook here on mein table! Look at it. Bei Gott! here's his name!
_Dot_ is der crate Leland vot edit de _Continental Magazine_! Dot moost
pe a fery deep man. Und I dink _he_ vas a repel!"

The next morning early the Colonel sent his ambulance or army waggon to
my hotel with a request that I would come and take breakfast with him. It
was a bit of Heidelberg life over again. We punished Rheinwein and lager-
beer in quantities. There were old German students among the officers,
and I was received like a brother.

At last Sandford and I determined to return to the East. There was in
the hotel a coloured waiter named Harrison. He had been a slave, but "a
gentleman's gentleman," was rather dignified, and allowed no ordinary
white man to joke with him. On the evening before my departure I said to
him--

"Well, Harrison, I hope that you haven't quite so bad an opinion of me as
the other people here seem to have."

He manifested at once a really violent emotion. Dashing something to the
ground, he cried--

"Mr. Leland, you _never_ did anything contrary to a gentleman. I always
maintained it. Now please tell me the truth. Is it true that you're a
great friend of Jeff Davis?"

"Damn Jeff Davis!" I replied.

"And you ain't a major in the Confederate service?"

"I'm a clear-down Abolitionist, and was born one."

"And you ain't had no goings on with the rebels up the river to bring
back the Confederacy here?"

"Devil a dealing."

And therewith I explained how it was that I went unharmed up into the
rebels' country, and great was the joy of Harrison, who, as I found, had
taken my part valiantly against those who suspected me.

There was a droll comedy the next day on board the steamboat on which I
departed. A certain Mr. H., who had been a rebel and recanted at the
eleventh hour and become a Federal official, requested everybody on board
not to notice me. Sandford learned it all, and chuckled over it. But
the captain and mate and crew were all still rebels at heart. Great was
my amazement at being privately informed by the steward that the captain
requested as a favour that I would sit by him at dinner and share a
bottle of wine. I did so, and while I remained on board was treated as
an honoured guest.

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