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This, at first blush, seemed to confirm my apprehensions; but
he was a very nice policeman, and took time to explain, seeing
that I was very green. And I took his advice and put the revolver
away, secretly relieved to get rid of it. It was quite heavy to
carry around.
I had letters to the Danish Consul and to the President of the
American Banknote Company, Mr. Goodall. I think perhaps he was not
then the president, but became so afterward. Mr. Goodall had once
been wrecked on the Danish coast and rescued by the captain of
the lifesaving crew, a friend of my family. But they were both in
Europe, and in just four days I realized that there was no special
public clamor for my services in New York, and decided to go West.
A missionary in Castle Garden was getting up a gang of men for the
Brady's Bend Iron Works on the Allegheny River, and I went along.
We started a full score, with tickets paid, but only two of us
reached the Bend. The rest calmly deserted in Pittsburg and went
their own way. Now here was an instance of what I have just been
saying.


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