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Werner's men were well content to let their master fight it out. The words spoken by Henker Rothhals, that the Devil had forsaken him, seemed in their minds confirmed by the weird song which every one present could swear he heard with his ears. 'Let him take his chance, and try his own luck, they said, and shrugged. The battle was between Guy, as Margarita's champion, and Werner.
'The youth eyed her an instant, but recovering himself, took a rapid survey, and called to the stranger to follow and help give the young maiden safe conduct home. 'Just then Henker Rothhals bellowed, 'Time's up! He was answered by a chorus of agreement from the troop. They had hitherto patiently acted their parts as spectators, immovable on their horses.
This impression became so strong with him, that when the stranger came abreast of him he stepped in front of him and took a good look at his features. "Well, sonny," said the drunken man, surveying Von Hartmann and swaying about in front of him, "where the Henker have I seen you before? I know you as well as I know myself. Who the deuce are you?" "I am Professor von Baumgarten," said the student.
'Herr Baron! said Henker Rothhals impressively; 'the matter is, that there's something unholy among us. The Baron's goblet flew at his head before the words were uttered. 'I'll make an unholy thing of him that says it, and Werner lowered at them one by one. 'Then I say it, Herr Baron! pursued Henker Rothhals, wiping his frontispiece: 'The Devil has turned against you at last.
Rascals! roared the Baron, turning on his men, and out poured a mud-spring of filthy oaths and threats, which caused Henker Rothhals, who had opened his eyes, to close them again, as if he had already gone to the place of heat. 'Only lend me thy staff, friend, cried Werner. 'Not I! thwack 'em with your own wood, replied the stranger, and fell back a leg.
'And I'm out of it! fasting like a winter wolf, howled the fellow. He was in the act of addressing himself to an inspection of the wain's contents, when a second flask lifted in air, gave a sop to his curiosity. This flask suffered the fate of the former. 'A Swabian blockhead, aren't you? 'Ay, that country, said the driver. 'May be, Henker Rothhals happens to be with the Baron?
Meanwhile, Captain Dalgetty, who had attended to every word of this dialogue, was making his own remarks on it in private. "What the HENKER can this sly fellow have to say to me? I have no child, either of my own, so far as I know, or of any other person, to tell him a tale about. But let him come on he will have some manoeuvring ere he turn the flank of the old soldier."
Werner's men were well content to let their master fight it out. The words spoken by Henker Rothhals, that the Devil had forsaken him, seemed in their minds confirmed by the weird song which every one present could swear he heard with his ears. 'Let him take his chance, and try his own luck, they said, and shrugged. The battle was between Guy, as Margarita's champion, and Werner.
At the first sound of a hoof, Henker Rothhals seized the rider's bridle-rein, and roared: 'Fair play for a fair bet! leave all to the Thier! The Thier, when he had recovered from his amazement, sought for old Gottlieb to give him a back-hit, as Margarita foresaw that he would.
The monk hurried up the street and into the marketplace, oblivious of the postures and reverences of the people, who stopped to stare at him and his gaunt attendant. As they crossed the square, Schwartz Thier spied Henker Rothhals starting from a wine-stall on horseback, and could not forbear hailing him.
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