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Why should I be thankful, except that I escaped the remorse for at least killing a dozen of them!" Ebearhard laughed heartily. "Oh, if so sure of yourself as all that, you need no sympathy from me." "You thought I would be outmatched? By the Three Kings! do you imagine me such a fool as to teach you artisans the higher qualities of the sword?
Command and suggestion are merely words, as you yourself pointed out, saying that they did not matter." "In that, Ebearhard, I was wrong. Words do matter, although Kurzbold wasn't clever enough to correct me. For example, I hold no man in higher esteem than yourself, yet you might use words that would cause me instantly to draw my sword upon you, and fight until one or other of us succumbed."
Ebearhard was with them, but Greusel walked rapidly ahead, so that he might say a few words to his chief before the others arrived. "I succeeded in preventing their talking with any stranger, but they have taken aboard enough wine to make them very difficult and rather quarrelsome if thwarted.
With that, the young woman retired slowly up the stairway, and disappeared, followed by her two servants. "Ebearhard," said Roland, when that official appeared, "Greusel has discovered a window to the north through which yourself and a number of your men can get down to the rocks with the aid of a cord, and he tells me there is a loft full of ropes.
"I give you my word on nothing, you mutinous dog!" cried Greusel; "and if I did, how could you expect me to keep it after such an example of treachery from you who pledged your faith, and then broke it? I shall obey my Commander, and none other." "I am your Commander," asserted Kurzbold. "You are not," proclaimed Greusel. Ebearhard laughed. "No need to question me," he said.
"I thank you for your judgment," said Roland, "which I am sure you must have formed with great reluctance. Having proven yourself such excellent judges, I doubt not you will now act with equal wisdom as advisers. A phrase of yours, Ebearhard, persists in my mind, despite all efforts to dislodge it.
"I think Greusel's suggestion is an excellent one," put in Ebearhard. "Very well," said Roland, "I shall adopt it, although I had made up my mind fully to enlighten them." "There is one more matter that I should like to speak to you about," continued Ebearhard. "Both at Assmannshausen, and at Lorch last night, we heard a good deal anent Furstenberg.
"I am in favor of going forward," said Ebearhard; then turning to the rest, who had gathered themselves around their captain, he appealed to them. All approved of immediate action. "Do you intend to follow the river road, Captain?" asked Ebearhard. "Yes, for two or three leagues, but after that we strike across the country." "Very well.
Ebearhard laughed. "You put it very flatteringly, Roland. Truth is, you'd fight till I succumbed, my swordsmanship being no match for yours. I shall say the words, however, that will cause you to draw your sword, and they are: Commander, I will stand by you whatever you do." "And I," said Greusel curtly. Roland shook hands in turn with the two men. "Right," he cried.
"You and Ebearhard had better go aft, and counsel them to begin the conference at once, for if we are to attack we must do so before darkness sets in. I'll remain here as usual at the prow." Some of the men were strolling about the deck, but the majority remained in the cabin, down whose steps the lieutenants descended. Roland's impatience increased with the waning of the light.
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