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With Frederick the Great

CHAPTER 6: A Prisoner
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Eulenfurst authorizes me to act as his banker, to advance any moneys that you may require.

Therefore you need offer me no thanks.
"What disguise do you, yourself, fancy ?" "I should think that the dress of a trader, travelling on business, would be as good as any I could choose." "Yes, I should think it would." "I should give myself out as a Saxon merchant," Fergus went on.

"In the first place my German, which I learned from a Hanoverian, is near enough to the Saxon to pass muster; and my hair and complexion are common enough, in Saxony." "I will get an official paper from the city authorities, stating that you are one--shall we say Paul Muller, native of Saxony, and draper by trade ?--now returning to Dresden.

I shall have no difficulty in getting it through one of my own furnishers.

I do not say that you could not make your way through without it; but should you be stopped and questioned, it would facilitate matters.


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