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Updated: September 24, 2025
They had no intercourse with the outer world, except that once a pursuivant arrived with a formal intimation from their kinsman, the Baron of Adlerstein Wildschloss, of his marriage with the noble Fraulein, Countess Valeska von Trautbach, and a present of a gay dagger for each of his godsons.
"Mother, it is all that I dreamt!" breathlessly murmured Friedel, as they halted under the dark arch of the great gateway tower. Not however in Friedel's dreams had been the hearty voice that proceeded from the lighted guard-room in the thickness of the gateway. "Freiherrinn von Adlerstein! Is it she? Then must I greet my old playmate!"
Ebbo trusted that his kinsman of Wildschloss was safe gone with the Court, and his temper smoothed and his spirits rose in proportion while preparations for a return to Adlerstein were being completed preparations by which the burgher lady might hope to render the castle far more habitable, not to say baronial, than it had ever been.
"Even so; and, had you not freely and nobly released your Genoese merchant, it had gone hard with Adlerstein." "Could Adlerstein be taken?" demanded Ebbo triumphantly. "Your grandmother thought not," said Sir Kasimir, with a shade of irony in his tone.
"Little lady," he said, "is this the Debateable Ford?" "No; now it is the Friendly Bridge," said the child. The pilgrim started, as with a pang of recollection. "And what is yonder castle?" he further asked. "Schloss Adlerstein," she said, proudly. "And you are the little lady of Adlerstein Wildschloss?" "Yes," again she answered; and then, gathering courage "You are a holy pilgrim!
"No," said Hatto, "but Freiherr Eberhard hath left us twin heirs, our young lords, for whom we hold this castle." "This trifling will not serve!" sternly spoke the knight. "Eberhard von Adlerstein died unmarried."
As to the site, the best was on the firm ground above the ford; but here only one side was Adlerstein, while on the other Ebbo claimed both banks, and it was probable that an equally sound foundation could be obtained, only with more cost and delay.
Happily the Freiherr of Adlerstein Wildschloss was at hand. "Herr Burgomaster," he said, "let me commence the dance with your fair lady niece. By your testimony," he added, smiling to the youths, "she can tread a measure. And, after marking us, you may try your success with the Rathsherrinn."
"Whoso touches a stick on Adlerstein ground shall suffer." "So!" said the count, "this is the burgher-bred, burgher-fed varlet, that calls himself of Adlerstein! Boy, thou had best be warned. Wert thou true-blooded, it were worth my while to maintain my rights against thee. Craven as thou art, not even with spirit to accept my feud, I would fain not have the trouble of sweeping thee from my path."
Bid me not leave thee alone with him, my son." "Nay, dear mother," said Ebbo, "the matters on which he is like to speak will brook no presence save our own, and even that will be hard enough to bear. So prop me more upright! So! And comb out these locks somewhat smoother. Thanks, mother. Now can he see whether he will choose Eberhard of Adlerstein for friend or foe."
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