leagues from the capital, had not gone far enough.
That was the trouble. She was still able to pull strings, and to make
her influence felt in various directions. Nor would she show the white
feather or succumb to the threats of rowdies.

It was from Lindeau that, disguised as a boy (then a somewhat more
difficult job than now), Lola, greatly daring, ventured back to the
arms of Ludwig. But she only stopped with him a couple of hours, for
she had been followed, and was still being hunted by the rabble of the
town. Before, however, resuming her journey, she endeavoured to get
into touch with her faithful _Alemannia_. "I beg you," she wrote to
the proprietor of the cafe they frequented, "to tell me where Herr
Peissner has gone." The landlord, fearing reprisals, withheld the
knowledge. If he had given it, he would probably have had his premises
wrecked. Safety first!

In this juncture, Ludwig, acting like a mental deficient, announced
that there was only one adequate explanation for Lola's conduct. This
was that she was "possessed of an evil spirit" which had to be
exorcised before things should get worse. Lending a ready ear to every
quack in Bavaria, he sent her under escort to Weinsberg, to the clinic
of a Dr. Justinus Kerner, who had established himself there as a
mesmerist.

"You are to drive the devil out of her," were the instructions given
him.

Fearing that his spells and incantations might, after all, not prove
effective, and thus convict him for a charlatan, the man of science
felt uneasy. Still, an order was an order, especially when it came
from a King, and he promised to do his best. On the day that his
patient arrived, he wrote to his married daughter, Emma Niendorf. A
free translation of this letter, which is given in full by Dr. von Tim
Klein (in his _Der Vorkamfdeutscher Einheit und Freiheit_), would
read:

Yesterday there arrived here Lola Montez; and, until further
instructions come from Munich, I am detaining her in my
tower, where guard is being kept by three of the
_Alemannia_. That the King should have selected me of all
people to send her to is most annoying. But he was assured
that she was possessed of a devil, and that the devil in her
could be driven out by me at Weinsberg. Still, the case is
one of interest.

As a preliminary to my magneto-magic treatment, I am
beginning by subjecting her to a fasting-cure. This means
that every