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In either event Barney would be given ample time to find his way to Tann. He wished that he might find other clothes, since if he were dressed otherwise there would be no reason to imagine that his pursuers would recognize him should they come upon him. None of them could possibly have gained a sufficiently good look at his features to recognize them again.
"But your majesty," interposed Von der Tann, "all may be lost in two days." "It is the king's command," said Barney quietly. "But Peter of Blentz will rule for these two days, and in that time with the army at his command there is no telling what he may accomplish," insisted the old man. "Peter of Blentz shall not rule Lutha for two days, or two minutes," replied Barney. "We shall rule.
He regretted the incident, but his orders were most positive no one could be permitted to pass through the lines without an order from the general commanding. He would go at once to the general and see if he could procure the necessary order. Would the prince be so good as to await his return? Von der Tann turned on the young officer, his face purpling with rage.
In the name of justice and common decency I am sure that you will liberate us both at once and furnish the Princess von der Tann, at least, with a proper escort to her home." Maenck listened in silence until Barney had finished, a half smile upon his thick lips. "I am commencing to believe that you are not so crazy as we have all thought," he said.
He came upon the impostor and his confederate, Lieutenant Butzow, as they were bearing the corpse from the hospital at Tafelberg where the king has lain unknown since the rumor was spread by Von der Tann that he had been killed by bandits. "He was not killed until last evening, my lords, and you shall see today the fresh wounds upon him.
"Some of you go back and search the street behind the inn they may not have come this way." The speaker was in the motor car. "We will follow along this road for a bit and then turn into the Lustadt highway. If you don't find them go back along the road toward Tann." In her excitement the Princess Emma had not noticed that Barney Custer still held her hand in his. Now he pressed it.
The king! Make way for Leopold, King of Lutha!" And a girl saw, and as she saw her heart leaped to her mouth. Her small hand gripped the sleeve of her father's coat. "The king, father," she cried. "It is the king." Old Von der Tann, the light of a new hope firing his eyes, threw aside his cloak and leaped to the chancel steps beside Butzow and the others who were mounting them.
"When you see us emerge upon the west side of the grove where the enemy's guns are now, you may order a charge, and we will take them simultaneously upon their right flank with a cavalry charge." "But, your majesty," exclaimed Von der Tann dubiously, "where will you be in the mean time?"
"I gave no matter what I gave I win." The careful student will find in the back numbers of the Deutsche Rundschau, that excellent family magazine, the experiences of a German military doctor with the army of General von der Tann. The story is one touched by that deep and occasionally maudlin spirit of sentimentality which finds a home in hearts that beat for the Fatherland.
On the afternoon of November 2,1914, there gathered off some part of Germany's northern shore a squadron consisting of the battle cruisers Von der Tann, Seydlitz, and Moltke, the protected cruisers Kolberg, Strassburg, and Graudenz, the armored cruisers Yorck and Blücher, together with some destroyers.
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