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Updated: May 26, 2025
What say you, comrades?" A universal shout of "Aye!" greeted the question, and even Kurzbold's three comrades joined in it. "And now, gentlemen, no more talk. Here's to the health of the new lieutenant, Joseph Greusel." The toast was drunk enthusiastically, all standing, with the exception of Kurzbold, who came down in his seat with a thud. "All right!" he cried, waving his hand.
I should never so far forget myself as to venture even a suggestion." "As I hinted to you," said Kurzbold, "you are talking too much. You are merely one of ourselves, although you have kept yourself separate from us. Greusel has been appointed lieutenant by our unanimous vote, and if his chief proves a poltroon, he is the man to act.
Alone, with bent head, he paced back and forwards across the courtyard under the wavering light of the torches. Very speedily he concluded that no plan could be formed until Greusel made his report regarding the intricacies of the Castle. "My luck is against me! My luck is against me!" he said aloud to himself, as if the sound of his own voice might suggest some way out of the difficulty.
None of us intended to hurt him, as you are very well aware, and besides, we don't want a leader who is frightened, and runs away at the first sign of danger." "Make up your minds what you propose to do," said Greusel stubbornly, "and give me your decision; then you will receive mine."
In other words, I'd murder him to lessen the odds, and then we'd fight it out like men." "Why didn't you say all this last night, Greusel?" "Last night my whole attention was concentrated on inducing Kurzbold to forget that you had threatened the company with a hangman's rope. Had he remembered that, I could never have carried the vote of confidence.
"Then we will wait for them a few moments longer," said the commander, with no trace of resentment at their unpunctuality, and from this Greusel assumed that he not only intended to go on, but had taken to heart the warning given him. Ebearhard and a comrade walked up the road rapidly toward Frankfort, hoping for some sign of the laggards, and Roland resumed his stroll beside the river.
He laughed aloud as he thought of the scrimmage that would ensue when this knowledge came to them. But little as he cared for the eighteen, he experienced a pang of regret as he estimated the predicament in which both Greusel and Ebearhard had stood on learning he had left them without a word.
I knew him well, and was glad that he came to my division, though I was very loth to relieve Colonel Greusel, of the Thirty-Sixth Illinois, who had already indicated much military skill and bravery, and at the battle of Perryville had handled his men with the experience of a veteran.
"Do you hear that, Joseph?" Hilda called up to the man leaning over the balcony. The deposed one made a grimace, but no reply. "Set your guard, and come down, Greusel." Presently Greusel appeared in the courtyard, followed by four men. "I have left two on guard," he said. "Right. What have you done with the servants?" "Tied them up in a hard knot. I found a loft full of ropes." "Right again.
"There are," he said, "a number of women in the western rooms of the Castle. They have bolted their doors, but tell me that the rooms contain the Pfalzgravine von Stahleck and other noble ladies, with their tirewomen. What am I to do?" "Place a guard in the corridor, Greusel, to make sure that these ladies communicate with no one outside the fortress."
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