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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Ach, I forgot to say that there are padlocks on the other side of the door, just as on this side. It will be of no use to destroy these. The door still could not be forced. Mein Gott! How thankful I am to have remembered it in time." "Confound you, Schmick, I believe you actually want to keep me out of that part of the castle," I exploded. The four of them protested manfully, even Gretel.
We found the four Schmicks in the vast kitchen, watching Britton while he pressed my trousers on an oak table so large that the castle must have been built around it. Herr Schmick was weighted down with the keys of the castle, which never left his possession day or night.
Old man Schmick tried to keep them out, but they said they didn't understand German and walked right by, leaving their donkeys in the roadway outside." "Couldn't Rudolph and Max stop them?" I cried, as my head emerged. "They were still in bed, sir. I think they're at breakfast now." "Good lord!" I groaned, looking at my watch. "Nine-thirty! What sort of a rest cure am I conducting here?"
Padlocks as large as horse-shoes, corroded by rust and rendered absolutely impracticable by age, confronted us. "I have not the keys," said old Conrad Schmick sourly. "This door has not been opened in my time. It is no use." "It is no use," repeated his grizzly sons, leaning against the mouldy walls with weary tolerance. "Then how did the woman and her dog get into that part of the castle?"
"I have a plan, sir," said Britton. "Why not place a tall ladder in the courtyard and crawl in through one of the windows?" "Splendid! That's what we'll do!" I cried enthusiastically. "And now let's go to bed! We will breakfast at eight, Mrs. Schmick. The early bird catches the worm, you know." "Will you see the American ladies and gentlemen who are coming to-morrow to pick out the "
My original contention that she was a poor relation of old Schmick and somewhat dependent upon him for charity to say the least had been set aside for more reliable convictions. Instead of being dependent upon the Schmicks, she seemed to be in an exalted position that gave her a great deal more power over them than even I possessed: they served her, not me.
Nearly all of the grand paintings, the tapestries that came from France and Italy hundreds of years ago, the wonderful old bedsteads and tables that were here when the castle was new all gone! And for mere songs, mein herr, the cheapest of songs! "Please don't weep now, Herr Schmick," I made haste to exclaim, seeing lachrymose symptoms in his blear old eyes. Then I became firm once more.
It seemed to me that he struck with a great deal more confidence than before, and again they all uttered ejaculations of pleasure. I caught Dame Schmick in the act of thanking God with her fingers. "See here," I exclaimed, facing them angrily, "what does all this mean? You are deceiving me, all of you. Now, let's have the truth every word of it or out you go to-morrow, the whole lot of you.
"Your coat and trousers need pressing, sir," said he. "And where am I to get the hot water for shaving, sir?" "Frau Schmick will supply anything you need, Britton," said I, happy on being able to give the information. "It is not I as needs it, sir," said he, feeling of his smoothly shaven chin.
Then and there I resolved that the doors of this pestilential prison should be locked and double locked and never opened again, while I was master of the place. Moreover, old man Schmick was down for a bad half-hour with me. How came these doors to be unlocked when the whole place was supposed to be as tight as a drum?
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