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Therefore, Joseph Greusel, I ask on behalf of the company what you intend to do?" "Before I can answer that question," replied Greusel, "I must know whether or not you will act as you did yesterday?" "What do you mean by that?" Several, speaking together, put the question. "I wish to know whether you will follow cheerfully and without demur where I lead?
Then he is not an artisan of any sort, for when he joined us his hands were quite useless, except upon the sword-hilt." "He said he was a fencing-master," explained Greusel. "I know he did, and yet when he was offered a fee to instruct us he wouldn't look at it. The first duty of a fencing-master, like the rest of us, is to make money.
Whenever affairs became serious, one could always depend on a laugh from Ebearhard. "Excuse me, Commander," he said, "but you placed Greusel and me in charge of this pious and sober party; therefore I, being the least of your officers, must stand the first brunt of our failure to keep these lambs peaceable for the night. Greusel, stand behind me, and in front of the Commander.
"I thought it well," explained Greusel, "not to break in the doors without definite instructions from you to that effect." "Quite right. Tell the ladies we will not molest them." "You molested me!" cried the handsome girl in the courtyard, her dark eyes flashing in the glow of the torches.
If I return and order you to march on unfed, you must do so as cheerfully as you can." This ultimatum called forth not a word of opposition, and Ebearhard led the van while Greusel deflected up the hill to his right, the sooner to reach the village.
There is barely enough for two hungry men, and as we are rid of these chaps for half an hour at least, I propose we sit down to our first meal." Greusel made no comment upon this remark, but the advice commended itself to him, for he followed it. Some time after they had finished breakfast, the unsuccessful company returned by twos and threes.
"No, it beats me." "Margrave Hermann von Katznellenbogenstahleck," said Roland, so solemnly that Ebearhard laughed and even Greusel smiled. "That's the individual," agreed Ebearhard, "and you must admit the name itself is a formidable thing to attack, even without the giant it belongs to." "Banish all apprehension," said Roland.
"How could he have done so? We know him to have been without money; therefore why to Frankfort, even if such a trip were possible for a penniless man?" "I am sorry now," said Greusel despondently, "that I did not follow a suggestion that occurred to me, which was to take the men direct down the valley where we encamped, to the banks of the Rhine, and there make inquiries."
He recognized Herr Goebel's great barge, with its thick mast in the prow, on which no sail was hoisted because the wind blew upstream. On recollecting his deserted men, he wondered whether or not Greusel had brought them across the hills to Assmannshausen. Had they yet discovered that Joseph carried the bag of gold?
"I have settled the bill, and will see that they do not starve or die of thirst before we reach the Rhine." "It is proposed," continued Greusel, "that each man should give all the money he possesses into a general fund to be dealt with by a committee the men will appoint. What do you say to this?" "There is nothing to say.
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