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"But he's an Elphberg and the son of his father, and may I rot in hell before Black Michael sits in his place!"įor a moment or two we were all silent then Sapt, knitting his bushy gray brows, took his pipe from his mouth and said to me: "And a very pretty picture he makes," sneered Sapt.įritz von Tarlenheim buried his face in his hands. What think you, Fritz- has Michael no king ready? Has half Strelsau no other candidate? As God's alive, man, the throne's lost if the king show himself not in Strelsau today. Rassendyll here doesn't know our pretty Michael. "Aye," said Sapt, "that he might not come to be crowned. "We must send word that he's ill," he said. Fritz shrugged his shoulders, as I began to see was his habit on most occasions. He'll not move for six or seven hours yet." "There's none within ten miles, and a thousand doctors wouldn't take him to Strelsau to-day. "Was it drugged-that last bottle?" I asked in a whisper.
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"He drank three times what either of you did," growled Sapt. "We've spent half an hour on him," said Fritz. I saw that his face and head were wet with water, as were mine. He did not stir, nor was there any break in his breathing. Sapt, the disrespectful old dog, kicked him sharply. His face was as red as his hair, and he breathed heavily. "Rassendyll," interrupted Fritz, getting down from the table and taking my arm, "look here." "I'll thank you, Colonel Sapt-" I began again, hot in spirit, though I was uncommonly cold in body. On the table by him sat Fritz von Tarlenheim, pale as a ghost and black as a crow under the eyes. I awoke with a start and a shiver my face, hair, and clothes dripped water, and opposite me stood old Sapt, a sneering smile on his face and an empty bucket in his hand. Whether I had slept a minute or a year I knew not.