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It came out with a rush at last. "Oh!" said he; "that is bad. I hope that is not a matter arranged, a thing serious. For if the Princess knows as much, the young woman will not have her troubles to seek in the Palace of Plassenburg." I hung my head and said naught, save that Helene declared she loved me not, but that I thought she was mistaken.
"See then, Lubber," said I, "you shall have ten of these now, and ten more afterwards, if you will carry a letter to the Prince at Plassenburg, or meet him on the way." "Not possible," said he, shaking his head sadly; "my little Missie has come to Thorn." "But," said I, "little Missie would desire it; take letter to the Prince, good Jan, then Missie will be happy."
Then Dessauer put his hand into his bosom and drew out a chain of gold the necklace of the woodman, in-deed and laid the two side by side. He uttered a shrill cry as he did so. "The belt of the lost Princess!" he cried; "the little Princess of Plassenburg!"
"You lie," she answered, calmly, not like one in anger, but as one who makes a necessary correction, "you loved her not. You were ready to love me glad, too, that I should love you. And since you knew not then of my rank, it was not done for the sake of any advancement in Plassenburg." I felt again the great disadvantage I was under in speaking to the Lady Ysolinde.
You have been pushing your fortunes, doubtless, and you have so they tell me become a great man in Plassenburg. And the little maid is a lady of honor, and very fair to see. But now you two have come to the old garret, like birds homing to the nest." "Yes, father," I said to him, "we have both come home to you, the Little Playmate and I. And now you will give us your blessing!"
"Ysolinde," I said, at last, "it is small wonder that I am strongly moved; you have offered me great things to-night. I feel my heart very humble and unworthy. I deserve not your love. I am but a man, a soldier, dull and slow. Were it not for one man and one woman it should be as you say. But Karl of Plassenburg is my good master, my loyal friend. Helene is my true love.
"They are all their true husbands, at least so far as one can know!" answered the Burgomeister, cautiously. "Then," said the lady, "bid them catch the innkeeper and send him to Plassenburg, and these others can abide where they are. But if they find him not, they must all come instead of him."
"These two are soldiers of the Guard from Plassenburg," said the Lady Ysolinde, "though now they are travelling as members of a Free Company desiring to enter upon new engagements. But they will make the way easier and pleasanter for us, as well as infinitely safer, being veterans well accustomed to the work of quartering and foraging." As indeed we were to find ere the day ended.
The newcomer was that sneering Court fop, the Count von Reuss, Duke Casimir's nephew still in hiding from the wrath of his uncle. For at that time hardly any court in Germany was without one or two of these hangers-on, and a bad, reckless, ill-contriving breed they were at Plassenburg, as doubtless elsewhere.
"Pray remember, Lady Ysolinde," said I, with much eagerness, "that I have as yet said nothing of the matter to Helene, and that my father only knows that I am to ride to Plassenburg in order to exercise myself in the practice of arms, before becoming his assistant here in the Red Tower and in the Hall of Judgment across the way." My visitor nodded a little impatiently.
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