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Updated: May 13, 2025
The Abbot met the retainers mirth with a look of great severity, and on Riguenbach showing that he was still bent on insolence, the Churchman cried to him: Get thee behind me, Satan; whereupon a flame of lightning darted suddenly across the chamber, and the man who had long aided and abetted the Counts wickedness was consumed to ashes.
In a remote and shadowy time there lived at Schloss Rosebach a certain Otto, Count of Reuss-Marlinberg of Hammerstein; and this Counts evil deeds had made him notorious far and near, while equally ill-famed was his favourite henchman, Riguenbach by name, a man who had borne arms in the Crusades and had long since renounced all belief in religion.
The Count doffed his hat to the prospective nun, less because he wished to be courteous than because it was his habit to salute every wayfarer he encountered on his domain; and Riguenbach, much amused by Ottos civility to one of low degree, burst into a loud laugh of derision and called after the maiden, telling her to come back.
She obeyed his behest, and thereupon the two horsemen drew rein and asked the damsel whither she was bound. To Walsdorf, she replied; and though Otto himself would have let her go forward as she pleased, the crafty Riguenbach was not so minded. There are many dangers in the way, he said to the girl; if you push on now that evening is drawing near you may fall a prey to robbers or wolves, so you had better come to the castle with us, spend the night there, and continue your journey on the morrow. Pleased by the apparently friendly offer, and never dreaming of the fate in store for her, the girl willingly accepted the invitation.
Otto hung his head on hearing this verdict, and as he stood hesitating, pondering whether it were possible for him to forgo all earthly joys, his old henchman, Riguenbach, chanced to enter, and learning his masters quandary, he laughed loudly and advised the Count to eject Bernard forcibly.
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