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Updated: September 14, 2025
One or two may be slightly blistered. All of them had their pockets picked by Thal. I understand that is a local custom. There's nothing to worry about." But Don Loris stared at him, aghast. "But this is deplorable!" he protested. "Stun-pistols used here? It is the one thing I would have given strict orders to avoid! My neighbors will talk about it. Some of them may even think about it!
"He'll take Fani on to his castle, leaving most of his men behind to massacre us!" Thal reined aside and Hoddan pounded on at the head of the tiny troop. This was the second time in his life he'd been on a horse. It was two too many. This adventure was not exhilarating. It came into his mind, depressingly, that supposedly stirring action like this was really no more satisfying than piracy.
It had begun amongst the mountains, and surely, she thought, it had retained to the end something of their inspiration. "We first met in the Tyrol, eight years ago. I had crossed a mountain with a guide the Glockturm and came down in the evening to the Radurschal Thal where I had heard there was an inn.
"Thal, collect the pistols and bring them inside." Fani swung lightly to the ground and followed him in. She looked curiously at the cables and instrument boards and switches inside. On one wall a red light pulsed, and went out, and pulsed again. The red-headed man looked at it. "You're being called," said Hoddan. "Don't answer it." The red-headed man scowled.
The principal course of the torrent having been I know not whether spontaneously or artificially diverted towards the west, the eastern part of the hill has been gradually brought under cultivation, and there are many trees, fields, and houses upon it; but the larger western part is furrowed with channels diverging from the summit of the deposit at the outlet of the Nantzen Thal, which serve as the beds of the water-courses into which the torrent has divided itself.
She accepted them with much delight and they fell to munching chocolate together; it was a real bond of union, and they were not the first sweethearts who discovered it. They reached the end of the street and suddenly found themselves alone once more on the slopes of the Altenhainer Thal or Valley. Green Ears sat down by Käthchen, and squeezed himself up closely to her.
The air became damp and cool; miles of fine smooth green grass stretched out before us; high hills, broken, pinnacled, wooded, and cleft with deep ravines, rose on our left; we heard the clash and music of falling water: to the north it was like the Munster Thal, to the south altogether volcanic. The tropics had vanished.
This way, Thal!" and Hoddan found himself in a small stone-walled courtyard doubtless inside a sally-port. It was filled with milling figures and many waving torches. And there was Thal, desperately pale and frightened. Behind him there was Don Loris, his eyes burning and his hands twitching, literally speechless from fury. "Pick a dozen men, Thal!" commanded Hoddan. "Get 'em on horses!
So the twelve who'd followed Hoddan poured in what would have been a murderous fire if they'd been shooting bullets, but was no worse than devastating as matters stood. There were screams and flight and utterly hopeless defiances by sword-armed and spear-armed men. In instants Hoddan went limping into the castle with Thal by his side, searching for Fani. Ghek had not fallen at the first fire.
After something over two of them, he said meditatively: "I think that if you wish to give me a present I will take it and not make a gift in return. You could give me," he added helpfully, "your share of the plunder from our victims." "Why?" demanded Hoddan. "Why should I give you a present?" "If I accepted it," explained Thal, "and made no gift in return, I would become your retainer.
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