At this point Robert Shaler offered a suggestion; he would go in the carriage and bring Fritz back with him.
“If it wouldn’t put you to any inconvenience,” Rudolf said, “I might drive down and get the lad myself. I would like to ask how his father is; he was injured yesterday in a wreck. Here, Hans, take my place,” and Rudolf, the visitors having assented readily to his wish, handed the bunch of keys to a young assistant who had come in answer to his signal.
“But,” said Katrina’s friend, “we prefer to wait until you return with Fritz; for we must all go in together. Katrina shall have her wish.”
“We can entertain ourselves out here in the courtyard,” Mrs. Shaler said, after Rudolf had driven off; “there is almost as much to interest one outside as inside these ancient strongholds.”
Then after looking at the old drawbridge, and other relics of that feudal past, they all sat down upon the outer wall to enjoy the beautiful panorama far below them.
VII.
obert Shaler was the first to break the silence.
“There is but one request I have to make,” he said, as he knocked the ashes from his cigar.