The boy's clever--he has courage and brains, as we know; he could have position--the home government is under immense obligations to him.

A word from me to Vienna and his services to the crown would be acknowledged in the most generous fashion.

And with his father's memory and reputation behind him--" "But the idea of reward doesn't appeal to him.

We canvassed that last night." "There's one thing I haven't dared to ask him: to take his own name--to become Frederick Augustus von Stroebel, even if he doesn't want his father's money or the title.

Quite likely he will refuse that, too." "It is possible.