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n but little seen. Rumour, however, was busy with him. At one time some commercial traveller had seen him at Zinck's Hotel at Hamburg; now he was living in a palace; and now the story was that he was existing in the docks, and writing sailors' letters for a glass of beer. One fine day Garman and Worse's heavy state carriage was seen on its way to the quay. Inside sat the head of the firm, Consul C.F. Garman, and his daughter Rachel, while little Gabriel, his younger son, was sitting by the side of the coachman. An unbearable curiosity agitated the groups on the quay. The state carriage was seldom to be seen in the town, and now at this very moment the Hamburg steamer was expected. At length an _employe_ of the firm came to the carriage window, and, after a few irrelevant remarks, ventured to ask who was coming. "I am expecting my brother the _attache_, and his daughter," answered Consul Garman, while with a movement peculiar to himself he adjusted his smoothly shaven chin in his stiff neckcloth. This information increased the excitement. Richard Garman was coming, "the mad student," "the _attache_" as he was sometimes called; and with a daughter, too! But how could they belong to each other? Could he ever have been really married? It was hardly likely. The steamer came. Consul Garman went on board, and returned shortly after with his brother and a little dark-haired girl, who doubtless was the daughter. Richard Garman was soon recognized, although he had grown somewhat stouter: but the upright, elegant bearing and the striking black moustache were still the same; while the hair, though crisp and curling as in the old days, was now slightly necked with grey at the temples. He greeted them all with a friendly smile as he passed to the carriage, and there was more than one lady who felt that the glance of his bright brown eye rested smilingly on her for a moment. The carriage rolled off through the town, and away down the long avenue which led to the large family mansion of Sandsgaard. The town gossipped itself nearly crazy, but without any satisfactory result. The house of Garman took good care of its secrets. So much was, however, clear: that Richard Garman had dissipated the whole of his large fortune, or else he would never have consented to come home and eat the bread of charity in his brother's house. On the other hand, the relation between the brothers was, at least as far as appearances went,
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