The citizens paid 220,000 dollars as the ransom of their city from pillage, and the Jews 180,000 for the protection of their quarters and of their gorgeous synagogue, whose wealth and magnificence were celebrated; and on the 14th of December, 1631, on which day Gustavus completed his thirty-seventh year, he entered the city as conqueror.
Here he kept Christmas with great festivity, and his court was attended by princes and nobles from all parts of Germany.

Among them were six of the chief princes of the empire and twelve ambassadors from foreign powers.

Among the nobles was the Count of Mansfeld, who brought with him his wife and daughter.

Three days before Christmas Hepburn's brigade had been moved in from their bivouac in the snow covered trenches, and assigned quarters in the town, and the count, who arrived on the following day, at once repaired to the mansion inhabited by the colonel and officers of Munro's regiment, and inquired for Malcolm Graheme.
"You will find Captain Graheme within," the Scottish soldier on sentry said.
"It is not Captain Graheme I wish to see," the count said, "but Malcolm Graheme, a very young officer." "I reckon that it is the captain," the soldier said; "he is but a boy; but in all the regiment there is not a braver soldier; not even the colonel himself.

Donald," he said, turning to a comrade, "tell Captain Graheme that he is wanted here." In a short time Malcolm appeared at the door.
"Ah! it is you, my young friend!" the count exclaimed; "and you have won the rank of captain already by your brave deeds! Right glad am I to see you again.