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For, under the cruel rule of the wolves of the castle, Thorn was ever busiest in the right. Indeed, the cheating of the guard had become a business well understood of all the citizens, who had a regular code of signals to warn each other of its approach. Lights winked and kindled in the Wolfsberg over against me.
And the Wolfsberg shall go up in flaming fire to heaven, so that the ashes of it shall be cast abroad to make the Mark yet grayer and more desolate like the fell of the beasts that dwelt within it." "Amen! Let it come quick, say I that I may see it before I die!" cried the forester, bowing low before the Chancellor.
But we passed the prison doors one by one, and the jailer of the Wolfsberg went coughing and rasping by to another part of the prison. "'Tis an ill place for chills," he grumbled. "I have never been free of them since first I came to this place, no nor my wife neither. She has been dead these ten years, praises to the pyx! Ah, would you?"
The kennels of the blood-hounds were silent, for their dreadful tenants were abroad that night on the Duke's work. Yet, sitting up there on the Wolfsberg, it seemed to me that I could distinguish a muttering as of voices full of hate, like men talking low on their beds the secret things of evil and treason.
There was a maid who dwelt in the Tower of the Wolfsberg opposite, called the Tower of the Captain of the Guard. And the maid's name was Elsa, or, as she was ordinarily called, "Christian's Elsa." She was a comely maid enough, and greatly taken notice of.
But the temper of the people in the square grew more and more difficult, and soon the guard had to be brought down from the castle. The great gates beneath me were open, and the Wolfsberg vomited the black men-at-arms to keep the Duke's peace. But this brought only the quicker strife. Yells received them as soon as their steel partisans showed up in the square.
The thunder of the cheering roused the very rooks and jackdaws from the towers of Thorn and the bastions of the Wolfsberg till they went drifting in a black cloud clamorously over the city. Then Helene put her arms about my neck, and, upon the scaffold of death, before all the people, we plighted our troth. "The Bishop the Bishop Peter!" cried the people.
"When he was dead, and ere he had been embalmed, there arose a clamor, first among the followers of Otho von Reuss, and after that among those of the Wolfsberg who expected that they would be favored by the new Duke. It was first whispered, and then cried aloud, that the death of Duke Casimir had been compassed by witchcraft and potions.
For as each man looked into the eyes of Casimir of the Wolfsberg he read his doom. The Duke turned his wrist sharply down, whereupon the attendant sprites of the Red Shadow seized the man and rent his garment down from his neck or the hand pointed up, and then the man set his hand to his heart and threw his head back in a long sigh of relief. It came the turn of the man who carried the babe.
But when we came before the walls, and with sound of trumpet and loud shouts summoned the Wolfsberg to surrender, a discharge of musketry from the walls, and the determined faces of a multitude of defenders showed us conclusively that all was not yet over. It was no use wasting men in attacking the great pile of buildings with the force at our disposal.
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