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Updated: May 22, 2025
Unloose your packet, man, and waste not so much time in the vaunting of your wares." "The Count von Eltz, my Lord, has built a castle that is part palace, part fortress, and in its latter office well-nigh impregnable." "Yes? And where?" "In the Eltz-thal, my Lord, a league and a quarter from the Moselle." "Impossible!" cried Baldwin, bringing his clenched fist down on the table before him.
By the Coat, he shall repent his temerity and wish himself twice over a captive of the Saracen ere I have done with him. I will despatch at once an army to the Eltz-thal, and there shall not be left one stone upon another when it returns." "My Lord, I beseech you not to move with haste in this matter. If twenty thousand men marched up to the Eltz-thal they could not take the castle.
Here, at least, was important matter for the warlike Elector's stern consideration an apparently impregnable fortress secretly built in the very centre of the Archbishop's domain; and knowing that the Count von Eltz claimed at least partial jurisdiction over this district, more especially that portion known as the Eltz-thal, in the middle of which this mysterious citadel had been erected.
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