Depend on me for life .-- V." [Ib.

308.]--This is the last of these obscure Documents.
Three days after which, "evening of March 18th", [Collini, pp.

55, 56.] Voltaire, Collini with him and all his packages, sets out for Potsdam; King's guest once more.

Sees the King in person "after dinner, next day;" stays with him almost a week, "quite gay together," "some private quizzing even of Maupertuis" (if we could believe Collini or his master on that point); means "to return in October, when quite refitted,"-- does at least (note it, reader), on that ground, retain his Cross and Key, and his Gift of the OEUVRE DE POESIES: which he had much better have left! And finally, morning of March 25th) 1753, [Collini, p.

56; see Rodenbeck, i.