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"No, sir," answered Landsberg. Reimers called Wiegandt to him. "What's the matter with Klitzing?" he inquired. The corporal replied: "Beg pardon, sir; the man means thoroughly well and takes great pains; but I think he is far too delicate." "Very good, Wiegandt," said Reimers, and dismissed him. Then he turned seriously and officially to Landsberg.
Horses to look after were given to the young drivers and to some of the gunners. Vogt, Klitzing, and Weise, however, were not among these. Corporal Wiegandt, who had been promoted to sergeant after the examination, and had been put in charge of the guns and waggons of the battery, knew them for industrious, trustworthy fellows, just such as he needed to assist him.
The sympathetic little seamstress saw in him something of the romantic disguised prince; and it amused her to make the credulous Wiegandt a little jealous, until at last she would assure him with a hearty kiss that he was her dearest and best.
As the pair had not much to talk of except their lover-like wishes, Wiegandt used to tell the girl about the recruits, so that by degrees Frieda learnt to know all their names and idiosyncrasies, and began to take a certain interest in them. Above all had the case of Frielinghausen appealed to her.
Should he ask Sergeant Wiegandt to give up going to see his Frieda for one evening? If he told him, of course not officially, but in a sort of way privately, about the intentions of the elder soldiers, then Wiegandt would certainly stay in. But his feeling of solidarity with his comrades forbad this. Only, were they any longer comrades when they could ill-treat a poor weakling? Surely not.
Duties which before had been a burden to him, which he had, besides, despised, he now performed willingly and zealously. If now Wegstetten inquired about him, Corporal Wiegandt always answered, "He could not be doing better, sir." The captain took an opportunity of praising him; and when he had finished, Frielinghausen, his face quite red with pride and joy, remained standing before him.
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