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Updated: May 25, 2025
On inquiring for Captain Badehorn, Schönleben was told that the captain had been summoned by the commandant, and that the lieutenant of the City Guard, Peter Schmohl, had command of the Defensioners in the absence of his superior officer. Schönleben tried to make out the Swedish deserter among the Defensioners present, but was obliged to return home without having done so.
A long gun with a large old-fashioned German lock, and a curved sabre, completed the equipment of the soldier, in whom Conrad recognised first a member of the city guard known as the 'Defensioners, and then his old comrade, John Hillner. 'Do I look better now, asked the newly-fledged soldier, 'than in my blue apron and coloured jerkin, in the days when I handled the plane and square?
'Whoever could have guessed, cried Conrad, heedless of the question, 'that you would be made a Defensioner! But are you a citizen, and do you know your drill? The Defensioners never admit a man unless he is a citizen and knows his exercises. 'I know my drill all right enough, replied John, 'and I daresay I shall get my certificate of citizenship.
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