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Updated: September 23, 2025
Herr von Schönau was already far across the terrace, and was just starting down the broad flight of stone steps which led from the castle court, when a man stepped out from one of the side buildings, and stood, respectful and silent, with his hat off. "Well, Stadinger, is that you? What's brought you to Fürstenstein?" the head forester called out. "Come here!"
Has your highness any other orders for me?" "No, you old boor!" cried the prince, half amused, half angry. "Go on, now; we don't need any sermon on morals." Stadinger obeyed, he bowed low and marched off. Rojanow glanced after him and shrugged his shoulders with a sneer. "I admire your forbearance, Egon; you certainly permit your servants to speak very freely "
"I understood you were not coming to Rodeck at all this summer. I saw Stadinger day before yesterday and he certainly didn't expect you then." "Stadinger made a great hue and cry because I came upon him so unexpectedly," answered the prince. "To hear him you'd think it was his own castle and I was intruding. And then I walked from the station, and he considered that a most undignified proceeding.
The men were already lifting their burden to carry him into the house, when the physician motioned them to put him down. "Wait! The prince wants to speak to his old servant, I think. A few minutes here or there doesn't matter now." Stadinger saw and heard nothing of what was going on around him, he saw only his master.
The two had long since disappeared in the room beneath, and yet Hartmut stood grasping the ballister, and looking down into the semi-darkness with vacant eyes. When Stadinger came out again, Hartmut retraced his steps slowly to his own room. For a quarter of an hour he paced restlessly up and down.
When that prince of blessed memory, your father, assigned me to this peaceful post, he said to me: 'Keep everything quiet and orderly at Rodeck, Stadinger; remember, I depend upon you. Well, I have kept everything in order around this castle for twelve years, and more especially have I guarded those of my own household, and I mean to do so for the future, too.
"Your highness is wrong," remonstrated old Stadinger, who always gave his master the title once at least in each sentence, for he thought if he did have to read the prince a lecture every now and then, he must show him some respect while doing it, "and it is unchristian, too, for the marriage relation is a holy state in which it is well to live; your father, blessed be his memory, married and so did I."
But before they had reached the door, it was opened hastily by a servant, who said excitedly: "The steward from Rodeck is here and wishes " "I have no time to be bothered now," interrupted Schönau sharply. "Tell old Stadinger I am engaged upon important family matters and "
To be sure the Herr Rojanow of Rodeck, who ordered every one around, even the prince himself, and the orderly whom Lieutenant Walldorf ordered to come forward because he didn't speak loud enough, were as far apart as heaven and earth. If it had not been for the voice! "Then your highness, you think " Stadinger began again. "I think you're an old ghost-hunter," said Egon gently.
But a spirit-hand seemed to lead me, and in the hour in which I reached my goal, poor Egon fell. You need not hide your tears, dear. I have no jealousy of the dead." "Eugen brought me his last greeting," said the young wife, the hot tears standing in her eyes. "And poor Stadinger wrote me, too, of his master's last words.
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