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Tell them a vast sum has been collected, and that their cartloads will be bought entire the moment they enter the city. There will be no waiting for their money. Prompt payment, and everything eatable purchased immediately. Greusel, I put on you the hardest task. Penetrate into the forest south of the Main, and tell the charcoal-burners and woodmen to bring in material for kitchen fires.
"Oh, that is the way you look upon it, then," said Greusel. "From a scriptural point of view, yes; and I am going to better the teachings of my young days by giving each of the men ten times the amount he desired. Thirty thalers each are waiting in this bag for them." "By my sword!" cried Ebearhard, "if that isn't setting a premium on mutiny it comes perilously close." "Not so, Ebearhard; not so.
He was about to do the same with the weapons captured from Furstenberg, but Greusel stepped forward, and asked him to put pikes, battle-axes, and the long swords into the cabin. Roland nodded his approval, saying: "They may prove useful instruments in case of an attack on the barge. Our own swords are just a trifle short for adding interest to an assault."
I notice that the proposal was not made until the proposers' pouches were empty." "They know that some of us have money," Greusel went on, "myself, for instance, and they wish us to share as good comrades should at least, that is their phrase." "An admirable phrase, yet I don't agree with it. How much money have you, Greusel?"
Roland was nowhere to be found, nor did further search reveal his whereabouts. Probably because of the new responsibility resting upon him, Joseph Greusel was the first to awaken next morning. He let his long cloak fall from his shoulders as he sat up, and gazed about him with astonishment. It seemed as if some powerful wizard of the hills had spirited him away during the night.
"Kurzbold, you are mistaken. I resign command with great pleasure, and, indeed, Greusel and Ebearhard will testify that I had already determined to pass Furstenberg unseen. As my former lieutenants are disarmed, surely the company, with eighteen swords, is not so frightened as to keep them gagged and bound.
I propose we leave the lot sleeping there, go to Wiesbaden for breakfast, and then trudge back to Frankfort. It would serve the brutes right." "No," said Greusel quietly; "I shall carry out Roland's instructions." "I thought you hadn't seen him this morning?" "Not a trace of him. You heard his orders at Breckenheim." "I don't remember. What were they?"
Open the gates. Lead the men to the point where we halted, Greusel, and there await me." The rich company departed, and Roland beguiled the time and the weariness of the Baron by a light and interesting conversation to which there was neither reply nor interruption.
Greusel, without seeming to care which way the cat jumped, had induced that unreasoning animal to leap as he liked. His air of supreme indifference aroused Ebearhard's admiration, especially when he remembered that under his cloak there rested a hundred and fifteen thalers in gold and silver. "But you know nothing of the way," protested Kurzbold.
"I must say," commented Roland, "that the Archbishop of Mayence is well served by his officers. Your examiner was a wise man." "Yes," replied Greusel, "but nevertheless, I am telling my story here in Frankfort." "No difference for that, because, as I have said, we can do nothing. Still, it is a blessing your examiner could not guess what you overheard in the other tent.
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