Part IV
DELIVERANCE
But this was easier said than done, everywhere the prince von Hockstein, etc, barred the way for louis and would not let him pass. He enrolled himselff at the University the most aristcratic set among the students hastened to pay him court. The professor even, men whose genius until then he jad revered, were evercome with joy when he appeared in their class rooms, ad addressed their words markedly to him. He soon had enough of this, and tried the army. His colonel thanked him for the honor he did the regiment in joining it; his superiors paid him flattering attentions; his fellows officers bored him. Then too the pettiness of garisson life was not much to his taste, so he quited active sevice but not until he had been rapidly promoted to the rank of major.
Of course, all this time women had played some part in his life. There were a few trifling affairs with actresses that did not go deep, and some passing firtations with women of the world .
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