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And then he referred to the female ascendency in the reign of the third Napoleon. June 11th. There is in the Reuss regiment of infantry an amusing little adjutant, Senior-lieutenant Schreck. He was with the expedition in China, and for that was awarded a medal. He is never to be seen without his little red and yellow ribbon.
The two eye-witnesses, Senior-lieutenant Brettschneider and Senior-lieutenant Reimers, were unanimous on the subject, and the accused gave his assent to the correctness of the particulars. The trial would therefore have come to an end very quickly had there not been a number of witnesses for the accused.
Senior-lieutenant Frommelt was entrusted with the command of the battery, and as Lieutenant Weissenhagen, the other officer belonging to the detachment, had already been sent on to the practice-camp to look over the barracks and stables, Senior-lieutenant Reimers was attached to the second battery during the march, and until further orders.
"What is the matter with her?" he asked. Kläre shrugged her shoulders. "She did not tell me; perhaps she could not. The trouble may be too profound, too terrible." "You have left her alone?" "She has gone." The senior-lieutenant looked out of window. His wife, with the baby in her arms, came and stood beside him. "See!" he cried. "There she goes!
Do you know that you are being guilty of disobedience to orders, and that that is a military crime?" But Bombardier Vogt remained unmoved, with his mutinous eyes fixed on the senior-lieutenant. Brettschneider waited a few seconds, then he called quietly to one of the corporals: "Put Bombardier Vogt under arrest!" The corporal looked blankly, first at Brettschneider, then at Vogt.
In addition to this he had many vexations to bear when on duty. Captain von Wegstetten and Lieutenant Reimers, who certainly both knew their business well, had always shown themselves satisfied with him; but a new senior-lieutenant was imported into the battery, a certain Brettschneider, who was always pulling Vogt up and finding fault with him.
It fell out conveniently that Wegstetten should be ordered away just then to the Austrian manœuvres. Güntz was put in charge of the sixth battery; and the affair had a perfectly natural appearance, since the command properly fell to the senior-lieutenant of the regiment. Güntz had no idea of his wife's little intrigue.
The two friends rode in silence until they reached the garden gate of Güntz's house. The senior-lieutenant would have said a mere brief farewell, but Reimers held him fast. "Güntz," he said, "I can't help thinking that a challenge on grounds connected with the service is incorrect. And I believe that it is so in the present instance."
Colonel von Falkenhein was the first to congratulate his acting adjutant, and it astonished him that an event of the kind, bound to occur in the natural order of things, should throw the sedate Reimers into such a state of excitement. The new senior-lieutenant, too, was surprised at himself, having hitherto imagined that he regarded such externals with considerable equanimity.
For Captain Mohr, who feared a rival and a successor in the senior-lieutenant, opposed tooth and nail every improved regulation that Güntz endeavoured to introduce in the battery, thus causing endless discussion and unpleasantness. At last Frau Kläre had made a move.
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