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We must follow upon her trail step by step; on horseback we can do it in half the time, and, if she is still going, about seven or eight to-night we have got her, Fritz. Now then, we're off." And we started afresh upon the track. It led us straight to the mountains. Galloping away, Sperver said
He comes and goes along the shelves of the library just like a big cat. Knapwurst knows our story better than we know it ourselves. He would tell you the longest tales, Fritz, if you would only let him. He calls them chronicles ha, ha!" And Sperver, with the wine mounting a little into his head, began to laugh, he could hardly say why.
Sperver, with the good taste of a man who appreciates beautiful scenery, had offered no interruption to my contemplations; but when, my eyes dazzled and swimming with so much light, I turned round to the darkness of the tower, he said to me "Fritz, it's all right; the count has had no fresh attack." These words brought me back to a sense of the realities of life. "Ah, I am very glad!"
Sperver dismounted to see our way better, and placed me on his left so as not to be hindered by my shadow. Here were large spaces covered with dead leaves and the needles and cones of the fir-trees, which retain no footprint. It was, therefore, only in the open patches where the snow had fallen on the ground that Sperver found the track again. It took us an hour to get through this thicket.
"I want to know, first of all, where does this Black Pest come from?" Sperver stared at me with astonishment. "Come from? Who can tell that?" "Very well, you can't. But when does she come within sight of Nideck?" "As I told you, ten days before Christmas, at the same time every year." "And how long does she stay?" "A fortnight or three weeks." "Is she ever seen before? Not even on her way?
"Gentlemen," said Sperver with a loud voice to make himself heard above the howling winds, and with arm extended, "you see the country mapped out before you. If the weather was fair I would take you up into the tower, and then we could see the whole of the Black Forest at our feet, but it is no use now. Here you can see the peak of the Altenberg.
The little hunchback, not at all indignant at so ambiguous a compliment, directed his benevolent eyes upon the face of the huntsman, and replied "You, Sperver, you are one of the reiters whose story I have been telling you. You have the arm, and the courage, and the whiskers of a reiter of old!
The boar's head looks excellent with its white-wine sauce; so does the crayfish soup. Isn't it your opinion too, Fritz?" I assented. "Well," said Sperver, "since it is so, you shall have the honour of filling our glasses. I mean to raise you step by step, for you are a very deserving fellow." Kasper looked down bashfully and blushed; he seemed to enjoy his master's praises.
And he took his lantern. "Good night, gentlemen." "Stop wait for me," cried Gideon. "I can see Fritz is sleepy; we will go down together." "Very gladly, Sperver; on our way we will have a word with Trumpf, the butler. He is downstairs with the rest, and Knapwurst is telling them tales." "All right. Good night, Fritz." "Good night, Gideon. Don't forget to send for me if the count is taken worse."
You understand?" "That will do, but open, for I am numb with cold." And I was about to push on; but Sperver, as obstinate as any other good German, was not going to let me off without edifying me upon the history of the people with whom my lot was going to be cast for awhile, and holding me by the frogs of my fur coat he went on
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