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Updated: June 8, 2025
Only when Cajetan Doeninger was not with him, Andreas Hofer became uneasy; he glanced around anxiously and called for his secretary; when the latter hastened to him, he held out his hand and said in a low, tremulous voice, "Cajetan, do not leave me.
At last Doeninger ventured to put his hand softly on Hofer's arm. "Awake, dear commander-in-chief," he said in a low voice, "awake from your grief. These gentlemen here are waiting for an answer. Tell them what you think " "What I think?" cried Hofer, giving a start and dropping his eyes slowly. "What I think?
"An exciting and perhaps disorderly scene would ensue, and such things must be avoided." "Well, then," said Andreas, sighing, "send me my dear secretary, and afterward the priest." A few minutes after the officers had withdrawn, the door opened, and Cajetan Doeninger came in.
He then saw two forms approaching the hut. Now they stood still in front of it. The moon shone brightly into the face of one of them; Doeninger recognized him at once; it was Raffel, the betrayer. The other was a French officer. The latter stood still at a distance of some steps from the hut, but Raffel went close up to the door, applied his ear to it and listened.
"He is certainly here yet, for there are his papers, which I intended to take to him, and without which he cannot depart," said Doeninger. "And here is the list of the prisoners whose release he is to procure." "Add to it the names of the old baron and his daughter, Cajetan, and state that their release is urgently desired." "But for whom are they to be exchanged?" "Yes, yes, for whom?
Andreas started up and stared incredulously at Doeninger; but his wife rose, uttering low lamentations, and dressed herself hurriedly. "Let us flee," she murmured; "quick, quick, let us escape by the back door." "The hut is surrounded," said Doeninger, assisting Hofer in dressing. "We can no longer flee." "Is that true?" asked Andreas, calmly. "It is, commander-in-chief."
Cajetan, I was not afraid when we were on Mount Isel and at Brixen, but I am afraid of that woman and her dreadful lamentations. I do not know what to do, Doeninger, if she should have found out what I have done, and come in here to reproach me with it." "We shall not admit her, commander-in-chief," said Doeninger, laughing.
But I shall not let you go again, my Lizzie," added Hofer, after Doeninger had left the room; "no, I shall not let you go again. You must stay with me at the palace here, and be my dear little daughter until the captain returns from his mission, and until you know if he brings your friend and her father along with him. Will you do so, Lizzie?"
"He scolds me for my love, and when I like to be with him all the time, he says my jealousy is disagreeable to him, and there is nothing more abominable than a jealous wife!" "Well, he may be right so far as that is concerned," said Doeninger, busily engaged in cutting his pen. "What did you say, Cajetan?" asked Hofer, turning to him.
The welfare of his beloved country engrossed all his thoughts, and he was desirous of devoting his whole strength to it. He issued a number of useful and liberal decrees, which, it is true, Ennemoser, Doeninger, Kolb, or other friends of his had drawn up, but which he had approved and signed.
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