Surely there was not another brave man like her
Ludwig in the whole world!
"That was our first meeting," concluded Katharina laughingly, laying her
hand on that of her betrothed husband, who was leaning against the arm
of her chair.
"I should like to know why you both thought it best to keep this robbery
a secret?" remarked Herr Bernat.
"The real reason," explained Count Vavel, "was because the baroness did
not want her protege, Satan Laczi's wife, persecuted."
"Hum! if everybody was as generous as you two, then robbery would become
a lucrative business!"
"You must remember," Katharina made haste to protest, "that all this has
been told to the matrimonial emissary, and not to the vice-palatine. On
no account are any arrests to be made!"
"I will suggest a plan to the Herr Vice-palatine," said Count Vavel.
"Grant an amnesty to the robbers; not to the four who broke into the
manor,--for they are merely common thieves,--but to Satan Laczi and his
comrades, who will cheerfully exchange their nefarious calling for the
purifying fire of the battle-field. I myself will undertake to form them
into a company of foot-soldiers.
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