"We mean to fight, and not to pray," cried the valorous tailor.
"We want none of your poltroonery, you blackguard of a linen-weaver!"
"The tailor is right! Pfannenstiel is a false prophet!" cried another voice.
"Hang him!"
"He wants to make cowards of us!"
The crowd raged still more furiously, and pressed toward the spot where Pfannenstiel stood. Threatening hands were raised against him, and the situation of the prophet of peace began to be uncomfortable enough, when suddenly two new figures rose near him, and, by their unexpected appearance, restrained for a moment the wrath of the people.
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CHAPTER X.
BE PRUDENT.
These two men, who so unexpectedly appeared at the side of the prophetic weaver, were none else than the two editors, Kretschmer and Krause, who came to support him in his exhortations in favor of peace, and to use their eloquence on the multitude assembled in front of the town-hall.