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Updated: July 23, 2025
'Light the petard! shouted a terrible voice from beneath the archway, at the sound of which Hillner's arm seemed involuntarily to lose its power. Immediately afterwards a Swede made his appearance, whose murderous eyes and bushy red beard were plainly visible in the torchlight.
When the news of Hillner's arrest reached Mistress Blüthgen's house, where it produced great excitement, the miller, who had not yet fully recovered, remarked dryly to the women: 'Seems to me as though our Defensioner must have acted rather like one of my donkeys. He could have obeyed the commandant's order, aimed his weapon, and fired over the Swede's head. He had it all in his own hands.
Your own eyes can tell you whether I am a Defensioner or not. 'And you have got a beard coming too, said Conrad, laughing. 'It's only a little one yet, but anybody can see that it is a beard. Hallo! Why, I declare you look uncommonly like that Swede who shot' Hillner's face darkened suddenly, as he interrupted Conrad with the abrupt question, 'Is the mistress in the house?
Just as they made this alarming discovery, they heard a loud knocking at one of the inner doors. 'The Swedish prisoners have fled! shouted Hillner's voice. 'Look out for treachery! 'Roller, said Conrad, 'let Hillner out. He is quite innocent. Why, it was my step-father and no one else that made the Burgomaster and the governor suspect him.
'And thank you, Master Shavings, for giving me a handle to catch hold of you by. Hillner's practised eye had not deceived him. The cavalry, between seven and eight hundred in number, proved to belong to the enemy, and sharply attacking the Saxon dragoons sent out to observe them, compelled them to retire within the fortifications.
Conrad Schmidt, under Hillner's watchful care, grew up into a famous carpenter. When in later years he, too, became a master-craftsman, he rebuilt his mother's house outside the Peter Gate, making it more beautiful than it had ever been before.
I will chastise the insolent scoundrel myself. As he spoke, Schweinitz grasped at the arquebuse, on which Hillner's hand closed like a vice. 'So please your excellency and my gracious commandant, said the Defensioner in a tone of entreaty, 'do whatever you please with my life, but I cannot shoot the man out yonder; neither can I give you my weapon for you to do it. 'What! shouted Schweinitz.
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