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Updated: June 7, 2025
He still lived and breathed, but he was paralyzed in all his limbs, and soon the inner organs, too, refused to exercise their functions. They removed the invalid to Spandow because the mutinous regiments were perpetually threatening to renew their attack upon the count's palace, and might disturb the repose of the dying man.
The balls whistle past their ears, and they laugh aloud, to prove to the enemy that they are still alive. Before them flash lights, like golden stars, like bonfires of rejoicing. "Count, those are the lights of Spandow! Just see those torches there! The commandant is waiting for you at the entrance to the fort with his torchbearers."
That dark mass there against the sky. That is our goal. Just one quarter of an hour and we shall be safe in Spandow." "One quarter of an hour! An eternity! Heigh! Huzza! On! on!" "Halt!" is heard behind them. "Halt! in the name of the Elector, in the name of the law! Halt! halt!"
"Well, I rather think he ought to have been here a half year ago," growled the Elector, "and we have been expecting him several months already." "But he is here now, my husband, he is actually here now. Only see what a good, affectionate son he is! He has halted at the inn of the Spandow suburb, merely to forewarn us of his arrival.
At Spandow, for example, all the citizens, with the magistracy at their head, issued from the town to pay their respects to him yes, even Commandant von Rochow has found it necessary to join in the universal rejoicings, and has ridden out with his officers in their dress uniforms to do honor to the Prince's arrival. Here at Berlin, too, your own residence, all is uproar and excitement.
Go now, Wallenrodt, for you have verily a long way before you. The road to Spandow is long." "In three hours I shall be there, honored sir. We shall then have ample time to make our preparations for defense, and meet you here at twilight with horses. Come now, gentlemen, that I may show you the approach to the subterranean passage. It is in the little corridor next your late father's cabinet."
I, on the contrary, dressed as a simple burgher, will take advantage of the subterranean passage now, and, watching my opportunity, when the street is quiet will leave the park and go away." "Where are you going, Wallenrodt?" "To Spandow, gracious sir, to Colonel von Rochow. I want to inform him of the course events have taken to tell him that you are forced to leave Berlin.
General von Klitzing, I have nominated you commander in chief of all the fortifications, as you, Colonels von Kracht, von Rochow, and von Burgsdorf, commandants of Berlin, Spandow, and Küstrin. You may perceive from this that a new era has dawned, and that we have great things to expect from the future. Gentlemen, the time for waiting and delay is past.
"It pleases me not," he murmured, after a long pause "no, it pleases me not at all that my son associates so constantly with Goldacker, Kracht, and Rochow at Spandow. They are disorderly fellows, who recognize no law or restraint, and find their sole pleasure in tumult and strife.
The Commandant von Rochow sent me with a verbal message, and entreats forgiveness in that haste allowed him no time for writing. I have only to announce that, even at the instant of my departure, the Electoral Prince was making his solemn entry into Spandow.
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