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Updated: June 14, 2025
The Count of Winneburg rose from his seat, and lifting his clinched fist high above his head, shook it at the timbers of the roof. "That," he cried, "will I never do, while one stone of Winneburg stands upon another." At this, those present, always with the exception of the Knight of Ehrenburg, sprang to their feet, shouting: "Imperial troops or no, we stand by the Count of Winneburg!"
"You will help me to get to the Tanks, where I'll have water and a chance to rest for a day or two until I'm able to travel; then I'll head for the Rio Colorado and wait for you in Ehrenburg. I'll keep one canteen and you can take the other; I have matches and my six-shooter, and I can live on quail and chuckwallas until I get to the river. You have your knife.
"What then is there left for me to do?" asked the Count, dismayed at the coil in which he had involved himself. "Nothing," advised the Knight of Ehrenburg, "except to apologise abjectly to the Archbishop, and that not too soon, for his Lordship may refuse to accept it. But when he formally demands it, I should render it to him on his own terms, and think myself well out of an awkward position."
The Knight of Ehrenburg had, up to that moment, been studying the texture of the oaken table on which his flagon sat. Now he looked up and spoke slowly. "I made no proffer of help," he said, "because none will be needed, I believe, so far as the Archbishop of Treves is concerned.
"And I; and I; and I; and I," cried the others, with the exception of the Knight of Ehrenburg, who, living as he did near the town of Coblentz, was learned in the law, and not so ready as some of his comrades to speak first and think afterwards.
"My orders are to take back your answer to his Imperial Majesty," replied the messenger calmly. The Count, though hot-headed, was no fool, and he stood for a moment pondering on the words which the Knight of Ehrenburg had spoken on taking his leave: "Let not the crafty Archbishop embroil you with the Emperor." This warning had been the cautious warrior's parting advice to him.
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