o attempt to contradict the Elector's
opinion of the incident or to try to make him adopt his own view of
the matter, begged him by all means to try to get possession of the
paper and afterward to leave the fellow to his fate. But the Elector
answered that he saw absolutely no way of doing so, although the
thought of having to do without it or perhaps even seeing all
knowledge of it perish with this man, brought him to the verge of
misery and despair. When asked by his friend whether he had made any
attempts to discover the person of the gipsy-woman herself, the
Elector replied that the Government Office, in consequence of an order
which he had issued under a false pretext, had been searching in vain
for this woman throughout the Electorate; in view of these facts, for
reasons, however, which he refused to explain in detail, he doubted
whether she could ever be discovered in Saxony.

Now it happened that the Chamberlain wished to go to Berlin on account
of several considerable pieces of property in the Neumark of
Brandenburg which his wife had fallen heir to from the estate of the
Arch-Chancellor, Count Kallheim, who had died shortly after being
deposed. As Sir Kunz really loved the Elector, he asked, after
reflecting for a short time, whether the latter would leave the matter
to his discretion; and when his master, pressing his hand
affectionately to his breast, answered, "Imagine that you are myself,
and secure the paper for me!" the Chamberlain turned over his affairs
to a subordinate, hastened his departure by several days, left his
wife behind, and set out for Berlin, accompanied only by a few
servants.

Kohlhaas, as we have said, had meanwhile arrived in Berlin, and by
special order of the Elector of Brandenburg had been placed in a
prison for nobles, where, together with his five children, he was made
as comfortable as circumstances permitted. Immediately after the
appearance of the Imperial attorney from Vienna the horse-dealer was
called to account before the bar of the Supreme Court for the
violation of the public peace proclaimed throughout the Empire, and
although in his answer he objected that, by virtue of the agreement
concluded with the Elector of Saxony at Luetzen, he could not be
prosecuted for the armed invasion of that country and the acts of
violence committed at that time, he was nevertheless told for his
information that His Majesty the Emperor, whose attorney was making
the complaint in this c