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You said, 'You are both officers from this day, and if you ever need my assistance call upon me freely." "And you wish to do so now?" said the king. "Yes, your majesty, I have something to ask." "Well, what is it?" Fritz Kober drew up grandly and ceremoniously. "I ask your majesty to allow me to marry officer Charles Henry Buschman to marry him to-day!"
At all costs, said the sensible Frederick Köber, the Count must have no successor. For the first time the Synod was attended by duly elected congregation deputies: those deputies came not only from Germany, but from Great Britain, America and the mission-field; and thus the voice of the Synod was the voice, not of one commanding genius, but of the whole Moravian Church.
Can't Buschman prepare better noodles than your cleverest cook?" "Verily," said the king, smiling, "he never cooked such noodles for me, and I must say they are good, but, now I have had enough, and I am much obliged to you." He wished to return his plate to Fritz Kober, but Fritz shook his head violently.
But in this steady and indefatigable glance, there seemed to be a strange, attractive power, which the soldier could not resist. He raised his head involuntarily for a moment, and the sweet and noble face of Charles Henry Buschman was seen. "Fritz Kober," said he, "why do you gaze at me so, and why do you follow me?"
"And then," said Fritz Kober, thoughtfully, "I am always thinking that this war is like a battle of the cats and hounds.
"How can I wish that, Fritz Kober?" whispered Charles Henry. "But you could never be a bad man; you have the best and noblest heart in the world! No man dare injure or abuse you! You give to those who ask of you, you help those who suffer, and you stand by those who are in difficulty! Then you are a complete, true man, and know how to maintain your own dignity on every occasion.
"I opened my ears as wide as possible, but it was all in vain. Is it not base and vile to come to Germany and speak this gibberish, not a word of which can be understood? In Germany men should be obliged to speak German, and not Russian." "They did not speak Russian, but French," said Charles Henry; "I understood it all." Fritz Kober stopped suddenly, and stared at his friend.
Fritz Kober laughed aloud. "No, no, sir king, we know that old story already." "It is not necessary that you should promise us any thing, your majesty," said Charles Henry; "we do not go for a reward, but for respect and love to our king." "But tell me, Fritz Kober, why you laughed so heartily?" said the king. "Because this is not the first time that your majesty has promised to make us officers.
"I will have nothing that I don't pay for," said Charles Henry, proudly; "I can pay as well as the rest of you, and perhaps I have more money than all of you; for while you are drinking, smoking, and playing, I put my groschens aside for a rainy day." "Yes, that is true; Buschman is the most orderly, the most industrious of us all," said Fritz Kober, as he nodded lovingly to his young friend.
"No, we do not wish it, sire," said Fritz Kober, ashamed, slipping softly from the roof; the others followed his example, and prepared to be off, giving melancholy glances at the wood lying on the ground. The king looked thoughtfully after them, and murmured, softly, "Poor fellows, I have deprived them of a pleasure. Halloo, dragoons," he cried aloud, "listen!"
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