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Once more she gazed at the princess, who was talking and laughing gayly with her husband and Count Kalkreuth. "How her cheeks glow, and what tender glances she throws him!" murmured Louise. "Ah! the prince has fallen a victim to his ingenuousness! Verily, he is again praising the merits of his friend. He tells her how Kalkreuth saved his life how he received the blow meant for his own head.
"As my brother desired it, I have appointed you lieutenant-general of the third army corps," said he, harshly. "You leave at once for Konigsberg you know your duties. Go, and endeavor to fulfil them." "Sire!" said the count, softly. "Go! not another word!" Count Kalkreuth, almost unable to make the military salute, left the room, stifling his anger. The king looked after him thoughtfully.
Marsan, whom Field- Marshal Kalkreuth had informed of Stein's arrival at Breslau, did not believe in the truth of this information. Baron von Stein, however, received secretly many proofs of love and sympathy. The king alone took no notice of him, and the members of the court, too, were prohibited from entering into any relations with Stein.
"You are very imprudent in your speech, Monsieur Kalkreuth," said the old man; "if others beside this young man had understood you, you know what would happen." "It is only my way of talking," replied the postmaster. "What can you expect? When everything is taken from you when you are robbed, year after year it is but natural that you should at last speak bitterly."
While these events were occurring in the dancing-room, and the queen was seated at the card-table, the Princess Wilhelmina, wife of Prince Henry, stood in the window-niche of the ball-room and conversed with Count Kalkreuth, the friend and adjutant of her husband. The count had been sent home amongst the wounded, but he was now restored and about to return to the camp.
"And now, gentlemen, give me your opinion. Field-Marshal Kalkreuth, you have satisfied yourself now that the French really intended to seize and abduct me to-night?" "I have unfortunately satisfied myself that they made such an attempt," said the field-marshal. "And you, Kockeritz, believe so, too?" "I do, your majesty; I am fully convinced that such an outrage was in contemplation."
He believes in clairvoyance, and her words, therefore, would make a profound impression upon him! We must try to have him brought hither, said Field-Marshal Kalkreuth; 'we must try to influence the stubborn fellow in this way. " "That was a very clever idea," said Hardenberg, smiling; "I almost envy those gentlemen their very pretty intrigue. They then made offers to you, did they not?"
Great Heaven! do they not know, then, that Kalkreuth, however excellent a man and brave a soldier he may be, is not fit to confront Napoleon? Is it not a matter of notoriety that the field-marshal loves and admires Bonaparte, and that he considers a rupture with France a great calamity for Prussia?
"Yes, sir, I have loved no one but Kalkreuth alone. I could not force my heart to love you you who in the beginning disdained me, then one day in an idle mood were pleased to love me, to offer me your favor. I was no slave to be set aside when you were in the humor, and to count myself blessed amongst women when you should find me worthy of your high regard.
"Kalkreuth is right we were going to do wrong, and we must avoid it. I shall write to the king, and ask leave for you and myself to go to Berlin." "That is, unfortunately, impossible," said a sweet voice behind him, and as the prince turned he saw the smiling face of Pollnitz.
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