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He turned to an aide de camp standing just behind him. "Intercept that squadron and direct the major to move due east along the King's Road to the grove," he commanded. "We will join him there." And as the officer spurred down the steep and narrow street the American, followed by Von der Tann and his staff, wheeled and galloped eastward.
"Butzow," he cried, "bring the fellow back; he shall be taught a lesson in the deference that is due kings." Butzow hesitated. "He has risked his life a dozen times for your majesty," said the lieutenant. Leopold flushed. "Do not humiliate him, sire," advised Von der Tann. "He has earned a greater reward at your hands than that."
From the landlord he learned that the frontier lay but three miles to the south of the hamlet. Three miles! Three miles to Lutha! What if there was a price upon his head in that kingdom? It was HER home. It had been his mother's birthplace. He loved it. Further, he must enter there and reach the ear of old Prince von der Tann.
For nearly two hours the man had ridden downward out of the high hills in search of a dwelling at which he might ask the way to Tann; but as yet he had passed but a single house, and that a long untenanted ruin.
It was clear to both these men that the hand of Zellerndorf was plainly in evidence in both the important moves that had occurred in Lutha within the past twenty-four hours the luring of the king to Blentz and the entrance of Austrian soldiery into Lutha. Following his interview with the Serbian minister Von der Tann rode toward Blentz with only his staff in attendance.
"Why not?" he bellowed. "You were a fool not to have done it yourself. Maenck will do it and get a baronetcy. It will mean a captaincy for me at least. Let me at him no man can strike Karl Schonau and live." "The king is unarmed," cried Emma von der Tann. "Would you murder him in cold blood?" "He shall not murder him at all, your highness," said Lieutenant Butzow quietly.
He asked no questions. What Von der Tann had told him, what he had seen with his own eyes since he had entered Lutha, and what he had overheard in the inn at Burgova was sufficient evidence that the fate of Lutha hung upon the prompt and energetic decisions of the man who sat upon Lutha's throne for the next few days.
I hoped that you would be sensible and accept my advances of friendship voluntarily," and he emphasized the word "voluntarily," "but " He shrugged his shoulders. A servant had entered the apartment in response to Maenck's summons. "Show the Princess von der Tann to her apartments," he commanded with a sinister tone.
"When I am with you, sire," said Von der Tann, "I know that you are king. When I saw how you led the troops in battle, I prayed that there could be no mistake. God give that I am right. But God help you if you are playing with old Ludwig von der Tann." When the old man had left the apartment Barney summoned an aide and sent for Butzow.
"He is a dangerous maniac, and we must make this fact plain to the people this and a thorough description of him. A handsome reward for his safe return to Blentz might not be out of the way, Coblich." "It shall be done, your highness," replied Coblich. "And about Von der Tann? You have never spoken to me quite so ah er pointedly before. He hunts a great deal in the Old Forest.
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