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Updated: May 16, 2025
Nay, the turbulence of their followers has more than once come before me in my judicial capacity as Justicer of the realm. What more would you have?" "Were you, my lord, of those who condemned them to death?"
He sat up instantly, his eyes flashing the old light, and began to speak rapidly and to clear purport, even as he used to do in the old days when Duke Casimir would come striding across the yard at all hours of the night and day to consult his Justicer. "What was I telling?" he went on. "Yes, I remember, of the home-coming of Helene under honorable escort.
Then came the Duke along the line, and behind him, like the Shadow of Death, paced my father Gottfried Gottfried, habited all in red from neck to heel, and carrying for his badge of office as Hereditary Justicer to the Dukes of the Wolfmark that famous red-handled, red-bladed axe, the gleaming white of whose deadly edge had never been wet save with the blood of men and women.
Besides, the nobility were afraid of their own perquisites if one of so ancient a charter as that of the Hereditary Justicer were refused. Then from the palace came the Bishop, with due and decorous attendance of crosier and solemn procession.
He came down immediately with an attendant. "Fear not," I said, "you will never be called in question for this kindly deed. The Duke Otho is slain, and the army of Prince Karl of Plassenburg is already at the gates." "The Duke is dead!" he gasped. "Who slew him?" "Who but the Hereditary Justicer of the Wolfmark should slay a traitor?" said I, smiling at his astonishment.
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