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Updated: May 3, 2025
Already hath she wound herself around my lady's heart, forsooth! and now she pays her court to the puffing chaplain! Hast thou never observed, my Rowland, how oft she crosses the bridge to the yellow tower? What seeks she there? Old Kaltoff, the Dutchman, it can hardly be. I know she thinks to curry with my lord by pretending to love locks and screws and pistols and such like.
When Caspar Kaltoff entered the castle, he made straight for the keep, and to his delight found no one in the lower part.
All this time Upstill and his party had been recounting with various embellishment their adventures both former and latter, and when Kaltoff was recognised, or at least suspected in the crowd, the rumour presently arose and spread that he was either the devil himself, or an accredited agent of that potentate.
If I am not there-and it is not now as it has been, when you might have found me in it every day, and almost every hour of the day; but if I be not there, do not fear Caspar Kaltoff, who is a worthy man, and as my right hand to do the things my brain deviseth. I will speak to him of thee.
But she was not left utterly forsaken; she had still one refuge the workshop, where Caspar Kaltoff wrought like an 'artificial god; for the worthy German altered his manner to her not a whit, but continued to behave with the mingled kindness of a father and devotion of a servant.
His respect and trustful sympathy showed, without word said, that he, if no other, believed nothing to her disadvantage, but was as much her humble friend as ever; and to the hitherto self-reliant damsel, the blessedness of human sympathy, embodied in the looks and tones of the hard-handed mechanic, brought such healing and such schooling together, that for a long time she never said her prayers by her bedside without thanking God for Caspar Kaltoff.
The same hour in which lord Herbert departed she went to Kaltoff, and was by him instructed in its mysteries. On the third day after, so entirely was the Dutchman satisfied with her understanding and management of it, that he gave up to her the whole water-business. And now, as I say, she sat at the source of all the streams and fountains of the place, and governed them all.
On the far outskirts of vision, indeed, a smoke might be seen at times from the watch-tower, and across the air would come the dull boom of a great gun from one of the fortresses, at which lady Margaret's cheek would turn pale; but, although every day something was done to strengthen the castle, although masons were at work here and there about the walls like bees, and Caspar Kaltoff was busy in all directions, now mounting fresh guns, now repairing steel cross-bows, now getting out of the armoury the queerest oldest-fashioned engines to place wherever available points could be found, there was no hurry and no confusion, and indeed so little appearance of unusual activity, that an unmilitary stranger might have passed a week in the castle without discovering that preparations for defence were actively going on.
'Call me the ushers of the hall, my lord, he said. In a moment the two officers were before him. 'Search and see, and bring me word who is absent, said the marquis. The two gentlemen went down into the crowd, one from each side of the dais. A minute or two passed, and then Mr. Cook came back and said, 'My lord, I cannot find Caspar Kaltoff. 'Caspar! Art not there, Caspar? cried lord Herbert.
But she was not left utterly forsaken; she had still one refuge the workshop, where Caspar Kaltoff wrought like an 'artificial god; for the worthy German altered his manner to her not a whit, but continued to behave with the mingled kindness of a father and devotion of a servant.
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