He asked me for my certificate of birth, and I told him he could not have it.

And then he went so far as to remark in a very disagreeable way that he could not authorise me to draw upon the estate until I produced evidence." "Well, that is natural enough." "It would have been so at first.

But they had accepted the mere signature to my letter from Heidelberg as proof of my existence, and I got word in Baden in July that I might draw as much as I pleased.

And now they turn upon me and say I am not myself.

Something has happened.
Fortunately I have not touched the money, in spite of their kind permission." "There is something very odd about this, Claudius.