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"We will open a cask," said Kurzbold, "as soon as we have passed the Schloss." He ordered the captain to follow the shore as closely as was safe, and take care that they did not come within sight of Furstenberg's tall, round tower. All sat or reclined on the dark deck, saying no word as the barge slid silently down the swift Rhine.
He asked us if any of you had money, but I told him I thought it was all spent, which probably accounts for his restricting the application to us two." "Then we are here in an unknown wilderness, twenty men, hungry, and without a florin amongst us," wailed Kurzbold, and the comments of those behind him were painful to hear.
"I don't know how it is, ex-Captain, that the moment you come among us there seems to arise a spirit of disputation." "Curiously enough, Herr Kurzbold, that same thought arose in my mind as I listened to your hilarity before I entered. I beg to add, for your satisfaction, that this is my last visit to the guild, and never again shall I disturb its harmony."
You will obey Kurzbold, of course, but if he tells you to make for Lorch, allow your boat to drift, and do not get beyond the middle of the river until opposite Furstenberg. There is a buoyed chain " "I know it well," interrupted the captain. "I have many times avoided it, but twice became entangled with it, in spite of all my efforts, and was robbed by the Laughing Baron."
"Who has stolen the river?" cried Gensbein. "Oh, stealing the river doesn't matter," said a third. "It's only running water. Who drank all the wine? That's a more serious question." "Well, whoever's taken away the river, I can swear without searching my pouch has made no theft from me, for I spent my last stiver yesterday." "Don't boast," growled Kurzbold. "You're not alone in your poverty.
How marvelous is this world, where the trickery of a Kurzbold and a Gensbein is canceled by the faithfulness unto death of a Greusel and an Ebearhard! Thus doth good balance evil, and then and then, how Heaven beams upon earth in the angel glance of a good woman. God guide me aright! God guide me aright!" he repeated fervently, "and suppress in me all anger and uncharitableness."
I dare say you all know the Elector's palace, whose beautiful tower is a landmark for the country round." "I protest against such a rendezvous," objected Kurzbold. "Make it the tavern of the Nassauer Hof, Roland. We shall all be thirsty after a walk of two leagues." "Not at that time in the morning, I hope," said Roland, "for I shall await you in the shadow of the tower at nine o'clock.
"Then why favor my action?" "Because I was reluctant to see a promising marauding adventure wrecked at the very outset for lack of a few soothing words." Roland laughed heartily. The morning was inspiring, and he was in good fettle. "Your words to Kurzbold were anything but soothing." "Oh, I was compelled to crush him.
'Tis no wonder you wish to avoid the Laughing Baron, if that is all the courage you possess." Stung by these taunts, Kurzbold gruffly ordered his men to release their prisoners, but when the gags were removed, and before the cords were cut, he addressed the lieutenants: "Do you give me your words not to make any further resistance, if I permit you to remain unbound?"
I stood by you yesterday evening, and succeeded in influencing the others to do the same, yet there is no denying that you spoke to those men in a most overbearing manner. Why, you could not have been more downright had you been an officer of the Emperor himself. What passed through my mind as I listened was, 'Where did this youth get his swagger? You ordered Kurzbold out of the ranks, you know."
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