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Updated: June 28, 2025
"That is he," she said quietly. "A very bad man this Baar whom many would like to see punished." Mercer jumped forward, but I swept him back with my arm. "Leave him to me," I said. "You stand here by the girls. If I need you, I'll shout." The man by the tree was a squat little individual, some five feet three or four inches tall, and extraordinarily broad.
Baar glanced around as he came in, and with what I took to be an oath ordered the children removed from the room. The slave woman I could see she was a slave by the band upon her arm picked them up. Evidently she did not move fast enough to suit Baar's temper, for as she straightened up the man cuffed her upon the head.
Miela and I were now bound securely hand and foot, and Miela's wings were lashed to her body. Thus rendered entirely helpless, we were laid together in a corner. From the talk that followed Miela gathered that Baar and his men were expecting the arrival of others.
We had come down to the level marshlands now, the outskirts of the city, and were passing along a path between occasional shacks. Before us, standing alone in a rice paddy, I saw a larger, more pretentious house a wooden structure on stilts, with a thatched roof, which Miela said was where Baar lived.
The Catholics brought together their chief force in the country of Baar. Their little army swelled to eight thousand. That of the Zurichers was strengthened from the Thurgau and St. Gall. A third just as important, that of the Bernese aided by Basel, Biel and Muehlhausen, under the schultheiss Von Diesbach, had reached Bremgarten.
There was little about us then, as we stood there dispirited and physically tired out, that would have commended respect from our subjects. "We must get some sleep, Miela," I said. "Things will look very different to us then." It must have been mid-afternoon when we awoke. Ano was at hand to report that Baar and his men, and all the king's guards, must have fled the city.
We, Hella and I, are always going past the Cafe Sick because he always has his afternoon coffee there. And on Thursday when we passed by there before the gymnastic lesson there was the gymnastic master sitting with him. Of course we bowed to them as we passed and in the gymnastic lesson Herr Baar said to us: So you two are tormented and pestered by my cousin in natural history?
It resembled that against Schwyz, but with an additional reference to the doings of the Unterwaldners and to the Austrian alliance. On the morning of the 9th it was sent to Zug, and directly after the Zurichan force, strengthened by new accessions, took up the line of march. They had not yet crossed the boundaries of the canton, when the landamman Æbli came up against them from Baar.
There seemed to be furtive figures lurking among the palms. "Those cannot be Baar's men, Miela there are too many. What can it " We had reached a little doorway under the front terrace. There was no time to investigate these advancing figures. Baar and his men might already be inside the castle. I slid through the doorway, every muscle tense.
Baar and his men ate breakfast, paying no further attention to Miela and me. Suddenly Miela spoke in a frightened whisper. "They are going now in a moment to the castle. The king they will kill!" It was evidently a widespread plot we now overheard.
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