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Updated: September 23, 2025
"Of course, if there's anything to see, Peter Stadinger must see it. My valet has asked permission also. For that matter I believe all the inhabitants of the forest have turned out to-day with their whole families to go to the hunting grounds." "Yes, your highness, they don't often have an opportunity to see such a sight," replied Stadinger. "The great Court hunts seldom take place in our woods.
I'm going to be a model of reason and virtue when I come back and then I shall marry." "Really?" said Stadinger with delight "How rejoiced the whole court will be!" "That's as it may be," said Egon. "It's more than probable that the whole court will be in a rage, especially my aunt Sophie. But you be silent, Stadinger; don't breathe a syllable while I am away.
As you stood looking into the fire just now I could see that something lay on your heart." "Don't bother me with your observations," exclaimed Egon impatiently. "Do you think I should never have a serious thought, when it may be we go into battle to-morrow?" Then he resumed his old position, and Stadinger, though silent, was unconvinced.
"God help us! Moritz, we must go at once," exclaimed Regine. Schönau had already rung and he ordered horses and carriage to be got ready at once. "And now, Stadinger, tell us how it happened." "The Herr Baron was on his way from Ostwalden to Fürstenstein," began Stadinger. "The way lay through the Rodeck lands, not far from the Castle.
"Well, I cannot help you, Stadinger," said the younger of the men. "The new cases must be unpacked and places found for the things. Where that is your business." "But, your highness, it is absolutely impossible!" remonstrated Stadinger, in a tone which showed that he was on a pretty sure footing with his young master. "There's not an empty corner in all Rodeck.
The firelight gleamed full upon the face, which was pallid, and on the tightly compressed lips, but not on the eyes, for they seemed fastened to the ground. Egon's hand seized the hilt of his sabre with convulsive grasp; it was all he could do not to cry out, while Stadinger stared at the man with wide open eyes.
Finally Walldorf got out of all patience with him and said: "I believe, Stadinger, you'd like to strap the prince on your back and take him off to Rodeck with you. The camp is no place for anxiety or alarm, remember that." "Then the prince had to reconnoitre to-day," added Eugen.
"Now gentlemen, the sermon's coming," laughed Egon good-naturedly. He was not far wrong, for Stadinger spoke his mind as usual, and to the point too, so that before he finished the officers felt he had the best of it against the prince. After half an hour's chatter, Willibald and Eugen Stahlberg rose to go. As they bade good-night to the prince he said: "You push on to-morrow, I hear?"
"But how does it happen that he's come to such a small place as Rodeck, with little room and less comfort?" Stadinger shrugged his shoulders. "Heaven knows! But our young prince follows his own sweet will, and no one dare ask why. One morning the news came, and the castle people hardly know whether they are standing on their heads or their heels.
There was a short pause, then the stranger said: "Take me to his widow; tell her it is Colonel von Falkenried." Stadinger led the way, and a tall figure wrapped in a military cloak followed him; the man watching on the stairs could only recognize the contour of the figure.
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