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"Barbaczy's hussars are encamped in front of the gates, and Victoria de Poutet last night had another interview with Lehrbach and Barbaczy," he said. "If, like both of you, I had a wife and children with me, I should not dare to depart without further guaranties."
"You see," he said, "we need not hope for much assistance here; let us seek it elsewhere. Let some of us repair in person to Colonel Barbaczy's headquarters at Gernsbach, while the rest of us will go to the spot where the murders were committed.
Let us tell them that we shall, perhaps, be compelled to wait a few hours." But several hours elapsed, and the messenger the German ambassadors had sent to Colonel Barbaczy's headquarters did not return.
"Light!" they shouted to him, and quite a squad of merry horsemen was now coming up behind them. When they dashed past the torch, the frightened torch-bearer was able to see their wild, bearded faces, their flashing eyes, and the silver lace on their uniforms. The torch betrayed the secret of the night, and caused the Sczekler hussars of Barbaczy's regiment to be recognized.
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