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Updated: June 19, 2025
Ah, my friend, dogs are better and truer than mankind, and the so-called images of God could learn a great deal from them!" Two months had passed since Trenck's last attempted escape; two months of anguish, of despair. But he was not depressed, not hopeless; he had one great aim before his eyes to be free, to escape from this prison.
This letter, written with his own blood upon a piece of linen, had been forwarded through Gefhart's mistress, the Jewess Rebecca, to Weingarten. He delivered it to the princess, and received, through Pollnitz, two thousand thalers, which he did not hand over to Rebecca, but retained for himself, and betrayed to the king Trenck's intended flight.
"And you want me to tell you " "Yes," interrupted Trenck, with a shudder; "yes, once again I ask you." Doo smiled maliciously as he answered: "The end of your captivity? Why, a traitor can scarcely hope for release!" The heat of the day, the wine he had drunk, overwhelming anger and his fiery blood, all mounted to Trenck's head.
Two years of anxious waiting, of vain hopes, of ever-renewing self-deception, of labor without result. This was Trenck's existence, since the day the doors of the citadel of Magdeburg closed upon him as a prisoner.
He declared that if he allowed Trenck to escape, he should not only lose his place and rank, but take Trenck's place in his fearful cell. This was a frightful menace to the ambitious and harsh commandant, Bruckhausen, and, of course, led him to take the severest precautions.
It is dangerous, therefore, to meddle with this wasp's nest. To serve Trenck, the interceder must be so harmless and insignificant that no one will consider it worth while to watch him, so that Trenck's enemies, not suspecting him, can place no obstacles in his path." "Lives there such a one?" said the princess. "Yes, your royal highness." "Where is he? What is his name? What is he?"
The trial, which had cost them twenty-seven thousand florins, and the sentence which followed, were proved to have been partial and unjust; and that sixteen of Trenck's officers, who most of them had been broken for different offences, had perjured themselves to insure his destruction.
It appears that Weingarten is in great need of money; for a hundred louis d'or, which I promised him, he confided to me that Trenck's enemies had excited the suspicions of the king against him, and declared that Trenck had designs against the life of Frederick." "The miserable liars and slanderers!" cried Amelia, contemptuously.
"Three things fail us, princess: A house in Magdeburg, where Trenck's friends can meet at all hours, and make all necessary preparations, and where he can be concealed after his escape. Secondly, a few reliable and confiding friends, who will unite with us and aid us.
Trenck shouted. "I am coming!" At the sound of his friend's voice Schell felt himself saved. By a supreme effort he succeeded in releasing himself from his captors. Frantic with rage and disappointment, the Prussians again advanced to the attack upon the two wretched fugitives, but Trenck's blood was up.
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