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The Archbishop regarded him keenly for a few moments, a derisive smile parting his firm lips; then said, as if his words were an afterthought: "Our faithful vassal, the Count von Eltz, is, if I mistake not, a neighbor of ours at Elfield?" The sentence took, through its inflection, the nature of a query, and for the first time Heinrich von Richenbach ventured reply. "He is, my Lord."
"You will then go down the Rhine to Elfield, where my new castle is built, and I shall be pleased to have an opinion regarding it." The Archbishop paused, and again his vassal bowed and remained silent.
Thus Von Richenbach, well mounted, with his commission legibly engrossed in clerkly hand on parchment, departed on the Roman road for Mayence, but neither there nor at Elfield could he learn more of Count von Eltz than was already known at Treves, which was to the effect that this nobleman, repenting him, it was said, of his stubborn opposition to the Archbishop, had betaken himself to the Crusades in expiation of his wrong in shouldering arms against one who was both his temporal and spiritual over-lord; and this rumour coming to the ears of Baldwin, had the immediate effect of causing that prince of the Church to despatch Von Richenbach with the purpose of learning accurately what his old enemy was actually about; for Baldwin, being an astute man, placed little faith in sudden conversion.
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