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 been carried to my quarters in the Markgrafen Strasse, two surgeon friends examined my injury. It turned out that I was suffering only from a strong contusion, which threatened to keep me in bed a considerable time. There I lay immovable and helpless while the city teemed with police agents to whom the catching of an insurrectionist from Baden or the Palatinate, who was, moreover, prosecuted on account of other political sins and now engaged in a further mischief, would have been an especial pleasure. My invalid condition lasted two weeks. As soon as I could leave the house again I took up with redoubled zeal my task, the story of which I shall now endeavor to give in a coherent report.