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Let us go to prison as quickly as possible, blockheads!" The sub-chief laughed uproariously, and even the disciplined soldiers smiled. The king of Jugendheit and the prince regent! This was a good joke, indeed! "Your majesty and your royal highness," said the sub-chief, his eyes twinkling, "will do me, a poor sub-chief of the police, the honor of accompanying me to the Stein-schloss."
"They have arrested him as a spy from Jugendheit, and he is innocent. Save him, Highness!" "How can I save him?" "He is not a spy." "That must be proved, Gretchen. I can not go to the Stein-schloss and order them to liberate him." She lifted Gretchen to her feet. "I have been there, and they will not let me see him. I love him so!" "I can arrange that for you.
The two of them gave themselves up readily. They are snug in the Stein-schloss by this time." "The Stein-schloss!" Gretchen blanched. "Holy Mother, what has happened?" "Why, your vintner and Herr Ludwig were arrested an hour ago, accused of being spies from Jugendheit." "It is a lie!" cried Gretchen hollowly. She groped blindly for the door. "Where are you going, Gretchen?"
The duel in the Biergarten; the king of Jugendheit and the prince regent in the Stein-schloss; the flight of the ambassador to the palace, more like a madman than one noted for his calm and circumspection; Gretchen carried into the palace in a dead faint, and her highness weeping; the duke in a rage and brought over only after the hardest struggle Carmichael had ever experienced.
"So your royal highness will understand," said Herbeck, "that it was the simplest move I could make, and the safest. Were it known, or had it been known this morning, that the king of Jugendheit and the prince regent had entered Dreiberg in disguise and had been lodged in the Stein-schloss, there would have been a serious riot in the city. So I had you arrested as spies.
I will go with you myself to the prison." "Thanks, Highness, thanks!" Gretchen was hysterical. The Stein-schloss had been the feudal keep; now it served as the city prison. Its grim gray stones were battle-scarred and time-worn; a place of deep dungeons, huge bolts and bars, and narrow slits in the stone for windows.
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