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pledge, I found that the amount which I seemed to
have on hand was a sum of which I was not positively
certain. Accord” "as I was determined that no
unrighteously : -oney should come into my
hands, I went, and told Mr. Gates
[ feared ther « T perhaps had,
speaking fi ~ we had
in hand. hut
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duly repo.
sador, and anno.
disappointment. x
tion to reach Mr. Rocs
Harper of Chicago; I tried ..
clair; I sought interviews with Mr. kc
I had frequently seen, but all in vain.
cabled Mr. Griscom I would at once have been
livered out of the great tribulation that had come
1pon me.
Nothing remained but to gather together all I had
received and return to Berlin. On my arrival Ambassador
 White, Consul-General Mason, and Mr.
William Griscom, my three tried and trusty friends
and counsellors, called upon me an hour after my
arrival. Mr. White put into my hands the letter

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Mr. Rockefeller had written him. “There you
have it,” said he, “a letter without head or horns.”
Mr. Rockefeller wanted to hear directly from Mr.
White. Mr. White turned the matter over to Consul-General
 Mason and myself, and when we sent
to Mr. Rockefeller the attested statement of the
treasurer he duly sent his check for forty-one thousand
one hundred and seventy-five marks, the full equivalent
 of his promised subscription. Thus the full
amount necessary for the beginning of the building
was in the treasury. Great was the joy throughout
the whole American community in Berlin, and I re--d
 more than them all. I had at last accom-‘hat
 had long been deemed the impossible,
faith, seconded by abundant labour
was justified of her children.