If the King would pardon these poor gentlemen, he would tell him everything.

For the rest, begged Seckendorf to help him in this labyrinth;--nothing could ever so oblige him as help now;" and more of the like sort.

These things he said, at Bonn, to Seckendorf, the fountain of all his woes.

[Ibid.] What Seckendorf's reflections on this his sad handiwork now were, we do not know.

Probably he made none, being a strong-minded case-hardened old stager; but resolved to do what he could for the poor youth.