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"How is it, then," said she, turning to General von Wylich, "that you dare to come again with this request, which I have already answered?" "Oh, may your majesty graciously pardon me," cried the general, deeply moved; "but his majesty, my king and master, has given me the sternest commands to get the key, and bring him the papers.
But, once more, I bend my knee, and implore your majesty to preserve me from this crime, and to have mercy on me." And again he fell upon his knees supplicating for pity. "Be merciful! be merciful!" cried the queen's confessor and the Countess Ogliva, who both knew that General Wylich would do all that he had said, and had both fallen on their knees, adding their entreaties to his.
Then, with a hasty movement, she severed the key from her chain. "I obey you, my father," said she. "There is the key, general; this room can now be entered." General Wylich took the key, kissing reverentially the hand that gave it to him.
Thanks to the queen's consultation with her confessor and her maid of honor, the King of Prussia's messenger, when he returned, was not denied an audience. This time, it was not Major von Vangenheim, but General von Wylich, the Prussian commandant at Dresden, whom Frederick sent. Maria Josephine received him in the room next to the archives, sitting upon a divan, near to the momentous door.
"I will not give it to you," said she, with a triumphant smile. "I do not move from this door; it shall not be opened." General Wylich rose from his lowly position. He was pale, but there was a resolute expression upon his countenance. Looking upon it, you could not but see that he was about to do something extremely painful to his feelings.
Captain Wylich, afterwards a General of mark; the Lieutenant Buddenbrock who did the parson-charivari at Ruppin, but is now reformed from those practices: all these are of Goltz.
Next day, September 9th, Friedrich, with some Battalions, entered Dresden, most of his Column taking Camp near by; General Wylich had entered yesterday, and is already Commandant there. The Diplomatic world in Dresden is in great emotion; more especially just at present. This morning, before leaving, Friedrich had to do an exceedingly strict thing: secure the Originals of those Menzel Documents.
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