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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Tell him who we are, Loraine, and why we must get to the city." Five minutes later, the farmer, overcome by the stupendous news, was lashing his oxen with might and main; the astonished beasts tore down the road to Ronn so bravely that there seemed some prospect of getting a telegram through in time. All the way the excited countryman groaned and swore and sputtered his prayers.
"But it will help," she cried brightly, an optimist by force of necessity. They stopped the cart and bargained for a ride to Ronn. The man was a farmer, slow and suspicious. He haggled. "The country's full of evil men and women these days," he demurred. "Besides I have a heavy enough load as it is for my poor beasts."
They called out to them, but the cries were in vain. With every minute they were running farther and farther away from the city of Edelweiss; every mile was adding to the certainty of the doom which hung over the little Prince and his people. A second small station flew by. "Ronn: seven kilometers to Edelweiss." He looked at her in despair. "We're going faster and faster," he grated.
At Ronn they learned that the operator had been unable to call Edelweiss since seven o'clock. The wires were down or had been cut. Truxton left a message to be sent to Dangloss in case he could get the wire, and off they started again for the city gates, having lost considerable time by the diverted mile or two. Not man, woman or child did they encounter as the miles crept by.
"I am not going through Ronn, but by the high road to Edelweiss," he protested. "A good ten kilometers." "But carry us until we come up with some one who can give us horses." "Horses!" he croaked. "Every horse in the valley is in Edelweiss by this time. This is the great day there. The statue of " "Yes, yes, I know. We are bound for Edelweiss. Can you get us there in two hours?"
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