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"No one can lift the screen from this side; but if you will press your foot on the little brass button in the floor at the foot of the column to your left, you will be at liberty again." The next instant Master Matyas's handiwork was rolled up to the ceiling. Marie was filled with delight and astonishment.
The general certainly should have commanded: 'Half battalion half left! Up the trees forward!" "That is true, Master Matyas," assented Count Vavel; "but I should like to know if you fully understand what I want you to do, and if you can do it?" Master Matyas's face brightened suddenly.
He laughed heartily, slapped Master Matyas on the shoulder, and exclaimed: "You are truly a wonderful fellow!" Then he took a roll of bank-notes from his pocket, and pressed it into Matyas's hand. "Here take these, and buy what is necessary. We will make the attempt at once." Master Matyas thrust the money into his own pocket, and darted from the room as if he had stolen it.
But when the villagers questioned Master Matyas about his work at the castle, they could learn nothing from him but schemes to capture the ever-victorious Corsican. "Herr Count," one day observed Henry, toward the close of the second week, "if I hear much more of Master Matyas's wonderful battles, I shall become as crazy as he is!"
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