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Updated: May 31, 2025
To-morrow the Vossian Gazette will be the only one which will be able to report, from actual observation, on the formal entry of the Russian general. Oh, how vexed Spener's will be! There is seven o'clock striking. In an hour the ceremony will begin. Spener's Journal still sleeps, while the Vossian Gazette wakes and works, and is alert to satisfy the curiosity of Berlin."
The editor of the Vossian Gazette had no idea of the vicinity of his rival. He continued to congratulate himself on the advantage he had obtained, and proceeded cheerfully in his soliloquy. "It makes me laugh to think of Spener's Journal. I, myself, advised Mr. Krause to conceal himself, and the good man faithfully followed my advice.
"The desired article for the 'Miscellaneous' is found, and I think that the prophetic linen-weaver, Pfannenstiel, is well worth more than the four children at a birth and the miserable stork's nest of yesterday's Spener's Journal. Let's write it off quickly." Kretschmer began to write most industriously, when he was suddenly interrupted by a violent knocking at the door.
As lord of the manor he had crushed the design to form a separate sect; and as Spener's disciple he had persuaded the descendants of the Bohemian Brethren to form another "Church within the Church." Nor was this all.
The little boy took the paper and laid it in his portfolio. "The printer told me to ask you," said he, "if you had written nothing yet for the 'Miscellaneous. Spener's Journal had yesterday such a beautiful 'Miscellaneous, and told about a woman who had four children at a birth, and a stork which had arrived and built its nest, although it was the month of October." Mr. Kretschmer frowned.
"Did any one speak?" sounded back again, and two heads were seen protruding from the pillars on each side of the gate, the eyes in them inquiringly peering at each other. The morning in the mean while had become lighter, and, with an inward shudder, the two gentlemen recognized each other. "It is Spener's! May the devil take him!" thought Mr. Kretschmer. "It is the Vossian!
"And this," said he, with a wicked smile, "is Mr. Krause, editor of Spener's Journal." An expression of joyous triumph shone in the countenance of the officer: "You are my prisoners, gentlemen," said he, as he beckoned to his soldiers to arrest them. Pale did Mr. Krause grow as he drew back a step. "Sir, this must be a mistake.
"Spener's Journal always has some wonderful news, and amuses the Berlin people with all kinds of stupid gossip," grumbled he. "The rivalry of such a paper is unbearable." "Well, how about the miscellaneous intelligence?" asked the printer's boy. Mr. Kretschmer stamped his foot angrily. "Go to the devil!" said he.
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