CHAPTER XXI.

1879.

Bret Harte--Letters from Him--Visits Us--Stay at Bocken-- Conversations--Mrs. Senator Sherman--Evenings at Bocken-- We All Go to the Rigi--How We Got the “Prince’s” Rooms-- Harte Goes with Us to Obstalden in the Alps--Very Simple Life--A Strange Funeral--Harte Finds His Stories in a Village Inn--More Letters--We Visit the Moselle River-- Finer than the Rhine--A Wonderful Castle of the Middle Ages--All Furnished and Fresh as When New--The French Did Not Find It When They Were Demolishing German Castles--An Exquisite Gothic Church Five Hundred Years Old--Wonderful Roman Ruins at Treves--More Letters from Bret Harte--A Happy Man. 170