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If Roland retires from this guild, I retire also, ashamed to keep company with men who uphold a trick worthy of a ruined gambler." "My dear Joseph," cried Ebearhard, springing up with a laugh, "you were misnamed in your infancy. You should have been called Herod, practically justifying a slaughter of us innocents."
"Still," added Ebearhard consolingly, "I think we have made a good exchange. There appears to be more money in Stahleck's bags than in our two barrels." "By the Three Kings!" cried Roland, staring upstream, "the barge is getting away. They have looted her completely, and are giving her a parting salute. The robbers evidently bear no malice against our popular captain.
I fear their Lordships' next meeting with me will not pass off so amicably as did the last." "Next meeting?" cried Ebearhard in astonishment; "have you ever met the Archbishops?" Roland gasped, realizing that his absorption in one subject had nearly caused him to betray his momentous secret. "Ah, I remember," continued Ebearhard.
"It is uncomrade-like," cried Ebearhard above the din, "to spend the money and then growl." "I speak in the interests of us all," shouted Kurzbold. "In the interests of our leader, no less than ourselves," but the others howled him down. Roland, holding up his right hand, seemed to request silence and obtained it.
I understand he has tramped both banks of the Rhine, from Ehrenfels to Bonn, so this walk is nothing to him. At the end of it he was off for a stroll, and here are these men lying above the sod like the dead underneath it." "I cannot make him out," mused Ebearhard. "What has been his training?
"Kurzbold, you are mistaken. I resign command with great pleasure, and, indeed, Greusel and Ebearhard will testify that I had already determined to pass Furstenberg unseen. As my former lieutenants are disarmed, surely the company, with eighteen swords, is not so frightened as to keep them gagged and bound.
No wonder they mutinied; but even then, by the love of God for His creatures, they did not actually attack me when I stood up with drawn sword in my hand." "Of course you have that at least to be thankful for," said Ebearhard. "Eighteen to one was foul odds." "I be thankful! Surely you are dreaming, Ebearhard.
The cutting down could easily have been accomplished, for Roland stood at their mercy, weaponless since the émeute on the barge. Notwithstanding the seriousness of the occasion, the optimistic Ebearhard laughed, although every one else was grave enough. "Thank you, Kurzbold, for your suggestion. We have come forward, not to use force, but to try persuasion.
Ebearhard raised his eyebrows at the mention of the women, but said nothing. Roland went in person to the room occupied by the young woman, and knocked at her door, whereupon it was opened very promptly. "Madam," he said, "there is opportunity for escape if you care to avail yourself of it." The girl had been seated when he entered, but now she rose, speaking in a voice that was rather tremulous.
"I stand by Benjamin," growled Gruesel, "the youngest and most capable of our circle; the one who produced the money while all the rest of us talked." "You never talked till now, Joseph," said Ebearhard, still trying to ease the situation with a laugh, "and what you say is not only deplorably severe, but uttered, as I will show you, upon entirely mistaken grounds.
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