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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Perhaps I can do it, but I place my present position, and my whole future at stake by so doing, and one hardly cares to do that for any one less than a brother, or brother-in-law!" Falkenried rose with a start and paced the room once, then he stood before his friend's wife, and said in an angry tone: "And in your deadly anxiety, naturally you believed him?"
The Falkenried and Wallmoden families had been on friendly terms for years. Living upon adjoining estates, their intercourse was frequent, and their children grew up together, while many common interests united the bonds of friendship still more closely.
"It's pretty bad to have to stay behind on account of a scratch that's not worth talking about. In another week I'll be all right. I don't care what the doctor says, and I hope to join my regiment before you take R ." "We'll have to be active now," said Egon, "for resistance doesn't continue long where General von Falkenried commands.
Will didn't wait to be told twice, but began his meal at the word. Wallmoden shook his head and said half aloud: "If it only really is over at last!" Neither Falkenried nor his son perceived that the door had been softly opened and closed again. Hartmut still clung to his father. He seemed to have lost all shyness and reserve in his newly found happiness.
Herr von Wallmoden had had an audience of the duke immediately on his return, and they had discussed matters of the gravest importance, and now a high Prussian officer was expected, who was the bearer of certain special dispatches to the duke. It was evident that some weighty military affair was under discussion, and Colonel Hartmut von Falkenried would be in the city in a few days.
Falkenried looked searchingly in her face as if he would read her inmost thoughts. "Are you happy?" he asked at last, slowly. "I am contented." "That is much in this life; we are not born to be happy. I have done you an injustice, Ada.
Notwithstanding her hard, unyielding nature, deep down in her heart there had always been a warm feeling for the man who was to have been her husband long years ago, for Hartmut von Falkenried.
"Yes, we march to R at daybreak to meet Major General von Falkenried and his brigade. We'll be some days on the way, I fancy, for the whole of this region is infested with the enemy, and our next move will depend upon theirs," answered Willibald. "Then tell the general, Will, that I'll be there at latest in a week," said Eugen.
Not a word more," ordered Falkenried, so threateningly that the youth, in spite of his fearful passion, was awed. "You have now no choice, and woe to you if you forget your duty.
"Yes, I know it all," said Egon in a hopeless tone. "Colonel Falkenried was a near friend of my father, and a constant guest at our house. I had never heard of his son, and took it for granted that he was childless, until that frightful hour at Rodeck, on the day of my husband's death. I was witness to the painful conversation between father and son."
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