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Updated: August 23, 2024
Constanza and her brother are still single, for aught I know, but they have been exiles in America these fifteen years. Father Cassimer went with them, after being colonel of a regiment which saw hard service on the banks of the Vistula; and it may be that he is still saying mass or hunting occasionally in the Far West.
'Perhaps he might, said the countess, with a forced laugh; but she cast a look of strange warning and reproof on her brother. 'What Finn? said the priest, catching the count's words. 'Oh, he is talking of an old nursery-tale we had in St Petersburg, hastily interposed the lady, though I thought her face had no memory of the nursery in it. 'About the Finns I'll warrant, said Father Cassimer.
Governor Printz returned to Sweden, and in his place the warlike magistrate John Risingh came to the Delaware with some soldiers under the bold Swen Schute, and appeared before Fort Cassimer demanding its surrender. The Dutch residents fled to the fort demanding protection; but Bikker the commander said: "I have no powder. What can I do?"
They had searched for us almost since midnight, fearing that something terrible had detained Father Cassimer and his company from mass. There were wonderfully few wolves shot in the retreat, and we all went home to Count Emerich's house, but not in triumph, for with us went the body of the Russian, of which old Wenzel was one of the bearers.
'Yonder is a light, said Constanza at last, as the poor horses became unmanageable from fright and weariness. 'It is from the cottage of old Wenzel, the woodman. 'If we could reach that, said Father Cassimer, 'and leave the horses to their fate: it is our only chance.
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