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Updated: September 23, 2025
"Stadinger, you have a bad habit of answering back perhaps you also told the princess that Zena had been in the city for several weeks?" "Yes, your highness, she asked me about my granddaughter, particularly." "What's the trouble with Stadinger now?" asked Hartmut, who came out at this moment, also attired for the day's sport, and who had caught the last few words.
"Oh, Stadinger is an exception," declared Egon. "Of late days he has allowed himself great latitude, but as to his sending Zena away he wasn't far wrong. I'd have done the same thing in his place." "It isn't the first time the old fellow has made so bold as to call us both to account. If I were his master he'd get his dismissal in this same hour."
"The chests that have come must be unpacked in Rodeck for the time being at least, and if the worst comes to the worst, you must find room in your own house for them." "Yes, indeed, Stadinger has room and to spare in his own house for them," it was the tall, dark man who spoke now. "And I'll superintend the unpacking myself."
"I meant the court ladies, your highness," said Stadinger impressively. "'The court ladies, can honor me with their company for a walk, but I'll never invite any of them to any hunt of mine, for I'm still a young bachelor." "And why is it that your highness is still a bachelor?" responded the old servant reprovingly.
But you can banish your gloomy thoughts, for here he comes." There was a quick step without on the stair; the old man gave a relieved sigh, but when the door opened it was only Eugen's man who appeared. "Isn't his highness coming?" asked Walldorf; but Stadinger gave the man no time to answer. He had glanced at his face, only a glance, then he started forward and seized his hand half-frantically.
But as old Stadinger had said, no one dare ask why of the prince; he did as the humor of the hour pleased him. It was the morning of a sunny autumn day. Upon the broad velvety lawn, two men attired in hunting costume, were standing talking to the steward, while in the broad court a few yards beyond, stood a light, open carriage, awaiting its owner's pleasure.
"The old one smoked last winter, so Stadinger determined to put in a new one, but that don't require any attention from you." "What does Stadinger know about it ?" said the prince angrily. He wished the "old bear" would hold his tongue about what went on at Rodeck. "I have many changes in view. We are pretty near our destination, I see."
He's not so rusty after all, for his years." "Poor fellow, he suffers greatly from weakness of memory," the prince hastened to assure her. "Stadinger forgets nearly everything don't you know, Hartmut? What he declares most earnestly one day, is entirely forgotten on the next."
Stadinger approached as commanded; in spite of his snow-white hair he came forward with a firm, erect step, while a pair of sharp, dark eyes peered out from his brown, weather-beaten face.
As far as that goes," continued the prince, with seeming frankness, "I made up my mind last winter to spend part of the summer here, and when Stadinger wrote me that some alterations were going on, I determined to come on to Rodeck myself to superintend them." "Superintend the putting up of a new chimney?" questioned the head forester in surprise.
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