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Readjusting the leathern sack, he again rose to his feet, but now cast his cloak about him, thus concealing the purse. Ebearhard lay sound asleep near him. Farther away the eighteen remaining members of the company were huddled closely together, as if they had gone to rest in a room too small for them, although the whole country was theirs from which to choose sleeping quarters.
Still, as you know, I am always ready to do anything conducive to good feeling, so you may inform them that you and Ebearhard and myself, that is, three of us, will contribute to the committee's funds an amount equal to that subscribed by the other eighteen. Such lavishness on our part ought to satisfy them." "It won't, Commander, because there's not a single kreuzer among the eighteen."
"Oh, that is the way you look upon it, then," said Greusel. "From a scriptural point of view, yes; and I am going to better the teachings of my young days by giving each of the men ten times the amount he desired. Thirty thalers each are waiting in this bag for them." "By my sword!" cried Ebearhard, "if that isn't setting a premium on mutiny it comes perilously close." "Not so, Ebearhard; not so.
Drunk as they were, this consideration staggered them, but Kurzbold was mad with rage and wine. "Come on, you poltroons!" he shouted. "There are only three of them." "Draw your swords, gentlemen," whispered Roland, flashing his own blade in the moonlight. Greusel and Ebearhard obeyed his command. Ebearhard laughed, and took two steps forward.
It was now evident to both that Roland had not entered Assmannshausen, for in so small and gossipy a hamlet no stranger could even have passed through without being observed. "Well, Joseph," asked Ebearhard, "what do you intend to do?" "There is nothing to do but to wait until our money is gone. It is absolutely certain that Roland is not here. Can it be possible that after all he returned?"
"I have already decided to remain here through the day, and drop quietly down the river to-night in the darkness past Furstenberg." "I think that is a wise decision," said Ebearhard. "'Tis against all military rules," demurred Roland, "but nevertheless with such an army as I lead it seems the only way. Do the men know that Furstenberg is our point of greatest danger?"
You and Ebearhard," he continued, turning to Greusel, "will employ the time in counting the money and making a fair division. With regard to the two barrels, the captain will receive my third share, and also be one of us in the apportionment of the gold we secured to-night. It was through his thoughtfulness that the barrels were saved.
Greusel saw that although Kurzbold talked like the bully he was, the others were rather subdued, and no voice but his was raised in defense of their previous conduct. "There is one thing you must tell us before we can come to a decision," went on Kurzbold. "How much money have you and Ebearhard?" "At midday yesterday I had thirty thalers, and Ebearhard had twenty-five.
He laughed aloud as he thought of the scrimmage that would ensue when this knowledge came to them. But little as he cared for the eighteen, he experienced a pang of regret as he estimated the predicament in which both Greusel and Ebearhard had stood on learning he had left them without a word.
"The thirty thalers are practically intact, and Ebearhard has about the same." "Well, fifty thalers lie safe in my pouch, but not a coin goes into the treasury of any committee the men may appoint. If they choose a committee, let them finance it themselves." "There will be some dissatisfaction at that decision, Commander." "I dare say.
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