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Updated: September 13, 2025
As soon as he was made bombardier he was removed from Room IX. to the non-commissioned officers' quarters. Wegstetten thought to do his protégé a favour by this; but Frielinghausen felt no happier in his new surroundings than in the company of the recruits. The mental atmosphere was hardly more enlightened than that of his former room-mates.
The fine gentlemen all play, drink, fool with women, gamble; it's only a question of the one a little more, the other a little less." Wegstetten objected modestly. "Pardon me, sir, not all. My old sergeant-major " He got no further. Falkenhein interrupted quickly: "You mean Schumann? Yes; there you are quite correct.
If the mummy were really to attain his century, or were to die on some marked day a royal birthday or funeral the services of a Wegstetten to the reigning family would show in a dazzling light, the reflection of which could not be disregarded by an acute man like Mohbrinck. Little Wegstetten smiled a contented smile under his big red moustache.
All this was changed when the non-commissioned officers' room received a new inmate, the one-year volunteer Trautvetter. Captain von Wegstetten fully intended that his one-year volunteers, like his whole battery, should be distinguished above all the others in the regiment.
Every one knows he can't control himself when he is drunk. And you can go to Madelung, or, still better, come to us under Wegstetten." "That's an idea," observed Güntz. "But it won't do. For, in confidence, Falkenhein has let it transpire that in the autumn I shall get my captaincy; and probably indeed certainly I shall succeed Mohr." Reimers jumped up, delighted.
When Captain von Wegstetten entered the orderly-room on the morning of April 1st, he at once said to the deputy sergeant-major, "What is the matter with you? You look quite green." Heppner answered, "Excuse me, sir, my wife has had a very bad night." "Indeed!" drawled Wegstetten. "I am sorry to hear it."
Was not this a topsy-turvy world? But no. Weise fitted his position to a nicety. His fluent adaptability was in its right place. Little Captain von Wegstetten would have no non-commissioned officer under him better calculated to satisfy his desires than Gustav Weise.
Now this incarnate disgrace to the German nobility was nearing his release, and was expected to be back again soon in the battery. Accident would determine whether he would finish his remaining two months before he was put on the Reserve, or would again get himself into prison. Wegstetten had sufficient knowledge of men to recognise the difference between the two.
And he had command of considerable supplies of money, which, being an orphan and of age, he could spend as he pleased. All means had failed with him: punishment drill, being reported, deprivation of leave, and being put under arrest. So at last Wegstetten decided to send him to live in barracks.
"But, dear old chap, then it's all right! You'll bring the fifth out of the mud. You're just the chap to do it! And your reward will be the greater in proportion to the wretched state of affairs now. Jerusalem! What a splendid division it will be! Madelung, Güntz, Wegstetten! The best heads of batteries in the whole corps! Without any flattery, old chap!"
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