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"Am I mad?" murmured he; "I hear a voice in my brain calling me; a voice " The bolts were pushed back, and Commandant Von Bruckhausen, accompanied by a soldier, with a burning torch, appeared on the threshold. "Why did you not answer, Trenck?" said he. "Answer answer what?" "The sentinel's call.
Trenck had awakened from his lethargy; he had found again his strength and energy, he was Trenck once more the Trenck feared by Von Bruckhausen, though lying in chains, the Trenck whom nothing could bend, nothing discourage. "He who dares to whip me shall die," said he, gazing wildly at the commandant. "With my nails, with my teeth, will I kill him."
An unearthly yell issued from Trenck's pale lips, and as he raised his head, his countenance was expressive of such wild, such terrible rage, that Bruckhausen drew away from him in affright.
They were employed in the flooring till the next day, so that I could not sleep, and at last I sank down with weariness. The greatest of my misfortunes was they again deprived me of my bed, because I had cut it up for sand-bags. Before the doors were barred Bruckhausen and another major examined my body very narrowly. They often had asked me where I concealed all my implements?
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