Dear Sir!
I never meddled, You know, in Your bu-
siness fare then You - were pleased to make me do
it. But Your being absent, I believed, altered the case,
and now I will tell You what I have done.
The other day Mr. Stegmann came to me,
and telling the rumours which your enemies were
propagating in the town, said that there was a
circumstance dangerous for You; for he did hear that
the Postmaster to Paderborn, after receiving the news of
Your departure did write to the Master, about a
debt You were owing to him. He Stegmann testified in all
his expressions great friendship for You, and great con-
cern for this and every other disagreable circumstance,
chiefly for Your being absent, and not able to defend
Your Self against the calumny of envy which were
